Different Feminist Theories
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- Created on: 02-12-14 17:47
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- Feminism
- Liberal Feminists
- Concerned with human rights and achieving equality by opposing laws against women.
- They want to abolish traditional stereotypes.
- Reject the idea that biology creates inequality.
- Reformism - progression towards equal rights can be done through gradual reforms in society rather than a revolution.
- Stereotypes are formed via the process of socialisation.
- Radical Feminists
- Firestone: Patriarchy is due to women 'bearing and caring' making them economically dependent on men.
- Evaluation: Marxist feminists believe capitalism is to blame for inequality.
- Anna Pollert: Patriarchy has little value in explaining women's position as it involves a circular movement.
- All men benefit from patriarchy (domestic labour and sexual services).
- The personal is political as all relationships are based on power.
- Brownmiller:fear of **** is powerful deterrent against going out at night.
- Rich: men force women into narrow 'compulsory heterosexuality'.
- Greer: all female or 'matrilocal' households as a n alternative to the heterosexual family.
- Firestone: Patriarchy is due to women 'bearing and caring' making them economically dependent on men.
- Marxist Feminists
- Women's subordination is a result of capitalism as women are domestic- reliant upon men as workers.
- Barrett: must give more emphasis to women's consciousness.
- Marxism: Is 'sex blind'.
- Women may choose these different roles via free-will, not via capitalism.
- Marxist Feminism doesn't look at subordination in non-capitalist societies.
- Mitchell: Hard to overcome deeply rooted patriarchal ideology.
- Difference and Black Feminsm
- Don't see women as a single homogenous group.
- Feminism has created a 'false universality' when it only looks at white, western middle-class women.
- Essentialism- all women are the same as they're oppressed by men but they claim this is wrong and fails to reflect diversity.
- Judith Butler: an alternative approach based on the ways of seeing, thinking or speaking about something as the world is made up of competing discourses.
- By enabling its users to define others in certain ways, a discourse gives power over those it defines.
- Liberal Feminists
- Reject the idea that biology creates inequality.
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