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Feminism - A level Politics exam with 100- correct answers 2024
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Feminism - A level Politics exam with100% correct answers 2024
Liberal feminist wave advocating for equal education, the right to vote, better working
conditions, etc. 'There is no female mind' - ANSWER-What was First Wave Feminism?
Liberal feminist wave with some radical and socialist feminism. More based around
need to destroy patriarchy to obtain equality with some advocating a cultural revolution -
ANSWER-What was Second Wave Feminism?
Expanded on radical feminism seeing institutions as further entrenching the patriarchy -
ANSWER-What was Third Wave feminism?
Based on intersectional feminism such that it has the interests of non-white and working
class women as well as middle class white women - ANSWER-What is Fourth Wave
Feminism?
The belief that women are biologically different from men (essentialism) and so women
should create a superior form of culture away from men. Liberal feminists largely see
this as defeatist - ANSWER-What is difference feminism?
The biological differences men and women assigned at birth - ANSWER-What is sex?
Cultural differences assigned by society towards the different genders according to
gender stereotypes and societal constructs - ANSWER-What is gender?
, The belief that sex has no bearing on gender as assigned by society and only men and
the patriarchy benefit from any perceived differences between men and women -
ANSWER-What is equality feminism?
The idea that men are seen as superior to women and are the 'first sex' and that women
are the 'other' or 'second sex' - ANSWER-What is otherness?
Radical feminist idea that sex differences should be eliminated and children created
artificially - ANSWER-What is androgony?
The social construct entrenched within institutions that men are the first sex - ANSWER-
What is patriarchy?
An area of patriarchy focused on by liberal feminists who believe that the state and
therefore the patriarchy can be reformed through legal equality and education -
ANSWER-What is the public sphere?
Areas of patriarchy beyond the reach of the state focused on by radical feminists.
Radical feminists believe there is no distinction between the public and private sphere
and believe 'the personal is the political' - ANSWER-What is the private sphere?
A post-modernist concept that non-white and working-class women should be equally
represented in the feminist movement - ANSWER-What is intersectionality?
There is a common human nature between men and women but this is stopped by
social constraints - ANSWER-What is a shared feminist view with regard to human
nature?
Differences in gender are artificially constructed and reinforced by institutions such as
schools so differences in gender should be tackled through reforms such as education
reforms in order to break the cycle of male superiority over women - ANSWER-What is
the liberal feminist view on human nature?
Gender differences are pervasive throughout life and must be destroyed accordingly.
This can also be seen through the creation of a female consciousness on patriarchy -
ANSWER-What is the radical feminist view on human nature?
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