Feminism Non core Ideology Flashcards
(34 cards)
What is suffrage?
the right to vote in political elections
What is Radical Feminism
A perspective within feminism that calls for a radical re-ordering of society in which male supremacy is eliminated in all social and economic contexts, while recognising that women’s experiences are also affected by other social divisions such as in race, class, and other sexual orientation
What is sex and gender?
Sex is usually described as ,male or female.
Gender refers to the socially constructed roles, behaviours, expressions and identities
What is Patriarchy?
A system of society or government in which men typically hold the power and women are largely excluded from it
What is the Public sphere and Private sphere?
Public sphere is at the centre of participatory approaches to democracy.
Private sphere is the opposite. It is a sector of societal life in which an individual enjoys a degree of authority, unhampered by interventions from governmental, economic or other institutions
What is Equality, Difference and Cultural feminism?
This is when feminists do not want equality but instead it strives for a redefinition of gender roles according to female-only standards
What is intersectionality?
This considers people’s overlapping identities and experiences
What is equality of opportunity?
This is a state of fairness in which individuals are treated similarly, unhampered by artificial barriers, prejudices, or preferences, except when particular distinctions can be explicitly justified to allow them all possible opportunities
What is equality of outcome?
This describes a state in which all people have approximately the same material wealth and income, or in which the general economic conditions of everyone’s lives are alike.W
What are the ‘Big Three’ schools of feminist thought?
Liberal, Socalist and Radical
What is post-modern feminism?
This is a mix of post-structuralism, postmodernism, and French feminism that rejects a universal female subject.
A new strand of feminism
What was Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s book called? What was it based on?
The Yellow Wallpaper 1892
About a women suffering mentally after 3 months of being closeted by her husband.
It was based on Gilman’s experience suffering post-natal depression and her husbands reaction to it.
Who is Charlotte Perkins Gilman?
An american feminist and associated with socialist feminism
What were Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s main arguments?(summary)
> Sex and Domestic economics go hand-in-hand. eg a women uses her sex to receive financial support for her family
young boys and girls should not be separated in toys, clothing or activities
economic independence was the key to a women’s freedom and to be equal with men
suggested the idea of communal housing
Who is Simone de Beauvoir?
A French philosopher and socialist feminist activist
What is Simone de Beauvoir’s famous quote?
‘One is not born, but rather becomes, a woman’
What were Simone de Beauvoir’s main arguments?(summary)
> women are taught and socialised to be what is perceived as a woman
Otherness
women are inferior in the eyes of men, but also their own eyes
feminists should not reject being a part of the ‘man’s world’
What is Otherness?
the idea that women were considered fundamentally different from men, who were seen as the ‘norm’. Women were deviants from the norm.
When did Simone de Beauvoir realise she was a feminist?
After the socialist developments had not left women better off. She no longer believed a socialist revolution would bring sufficient enough women’s liberation.
Who was Kate Millet?
An American radical feminist
What was Kate Millet’s book called? What was its impact?
‘Sexual Politics’ 1970
Suggested Family was the key tool of patriarchy
What were Kate Millet’s main arguments? (summary)
> Female oppression is political and cultural
family was ‘patriarchy’s key institution’ and mirrored society
Patriarchy granted males ownership over their wives and children-legal assumption that marriage resulted in domestic services and sexual consent
culture supported male authority but denied female power
women in art and literature and degraded socially and sexually
attacked romantic love calling for a sexual revolution to stop patriarchy
Who is Sheila Rowbotham?
A socialist feminist during the second wave of feminism
What sis Sheila Rowbotham believe in?
Argued female oppression comes from economic and cultural forces and a dual response from private and public spheres are required for liberation
