Key Ideas - Feminism Flashcards
(27 cards)
What is DeBeauvoir’s views on the state?
It perpetuates a culture that discourages women from expressing true freedom, and being their ‘authentic self.’
Intersectionality is a concept of …
bell hooks
Name all the feminist books and their authors
DeBeavoir - ‘The second sex’.
Gilman - ‘Women and economics’.
Rowbotham - ‘Women’s consciousness, men’s world’.
Millet - ‘Sexual politics’.
hooks - ‘Feminism is for everybody’.
DeBeavoir was an…
Existentialist.
What’s the existentialist term given to the degeneration of a person’s self growth and individual thinking is called…
Bad faith
The existentialist name for self actualisation is called…
Becoming your authentic self.
Existentialism prioritises the…
Individual experience and exploration.
Existentialist see the state as something that…
Strangled the development of the individual, constricting it from becoming authentic as their ideas are not their own.
Existentialists say there is only the individual’s …
Own truth.
Complete subjectivism.
What does DeBeavoir call the marginalisation and or oppression of women?
‘Othering’
Women to DeBeavoir are…
____ by society.
Made by society.
To be a ‘women’ is a social construct that goes beyond the biology.
Society to DeBeavoir is something that maintains patriarchy….
Unconsciously in both the public and private sphere.
Simmons DeBeavoir is like Mary Wollstonecraft in making the same point.
What is that point.
That women are “complicit in their own subjugation”. - Wollstonecraft.
Women to do check their bad faith - DeBeavoir.
DeBeavoir thought that the economy…
Was dominated by men, women were not allowed to be their authentic selves by finding the status as equals in the economy as men are.
Gilman made an argument against the application of ______ ________ to capitalism in order to explain…
Social Darwinism
To explain how women are not being as successful and or prosperous in the economy than men.
The application of Social Darwinism is called an …
“Evolutionary truth”
The domestic servitude of women (according to Gilman) is one of the key reasons men…
Dominate women in the economy, and perpetuate their dependence.
Women, according to Millett, should in order to liberate themselves from heterosexual relationships…
Engage when possible in political lesbianism
Millett has been discribed as having quasi socialist ideas.
Why?
Because of her suggestion of communion approaches to child rearing
Intersectionality is a point made by…
bell hooks
bell hooks thought that feminism had two key problems.
What?
- not considering intersectionality.
- Not being inclusive or empathetic to the experiences of men, who must be made allies of.
Which thinker is one of the oldest socialists to consider the position and opportunities for, of women under capitalism?
Not Rowbotham
Fredrich Engels was one of the first thinkers to entertain that women are more uniquely oppressed under capitalism.
According to Rowbotham, what’s the economy of capitalism’s relationship with women?
Women are seen as cheaper labour and are frequently denied the most available routes to success.
Rowbotham criticises Marx how?
Says that the Marxist emphasis of economic relations is not enough to explain women’s oppression under capitalism that’s unique to them.
Revolutions cannot be assumed to automatically liberate women. It requires cultural transformation.
