Feminism/Gender

Beliefs/Values -○ Reformist not revolutionary ○ Equality of women can achieved through legal means and social reform Ex: write more bills and elect the right people ○ Men and women are essentially the same, with the same capabilities, and the same rights ○ Women should not have to stick ...

What are the key features of liberal feminism? - Individualism, reform, choice and nature, and equal rights What is individualism? - A liberal belief that every individual is of equal moral worth and therefore we can only judge individuals on rational grounds Who are the key thinkers behind Indi...

Patriarchal - describes a society or culture dominated by men. Other - denotes "different from" and not as important as the privileged term of a binary. I.e. women, the colonized. Sexual Politics - posits that economic inequality and ideological indoctrination have been the chief causes of wom...

What is Islamic Feminist Discourse? -- Derived from the Qu'ran - Advocates gender equality (which is affirmed by the Qu'ran + prevented/subverted by patriarchal ideas & practices) - The fiqh in 9th Classic 9th century was saturated with patriarchal ideas which impacted the Sharia (which today ...

first wave of feminism - 19th and early 20th century suffrage movement second wave of feminism - 60s-70s women's liberation movement third wave of feminism - 80s-present mary wollstonecraft - british political philosopher; published first feminist manifesto entitled "the vindication of the rig...

Sex - biological constitution as female or male gender - our cultural programming as feminine or masculine. varies within cultures "On ne nait pas femme, on le devient" Simone De Bouvet - One is not born a woman one becomes one Homophobia: - Fear of, aversion to, or discrimination against, ho...

New Social Movements --emerged in the 1960s -challenged traditional political allegiances of .Western liberal politics .Worker-based movements (labor unions) .State socialism (Western and Eastern Europe) .broad-based and identity-based Broad-Based Movements -.Civil rights movements .Anti-Viet...

feminism -a MOVEMENT to end sexism, sexist exploitation, and oppression movement -a group of people acting with some degree of organization and continuity outside of institutional channels for the purpose of promoting change in the group, society, or the world sexism -attitudes, actions, and inst...

Principles -- The personal is political - Personal & social identities are interdependent - Commitment to social change - Counseling relationship is egalitarian - Women & girls experiences and ways of knowing are honored - Definitions of distress & "mental illness" are reformulated - There i...

What are the basic questions of feminism? What is explored within each one? -1. And what about the women?/Where are women are the women in any situated being investigated?/How do they experience the situation? Answer: Women are present in most social situations (Academic, legislative, public, soc...

What is the context within which feminist theory developed? -The first wave of feminist theory developed in the 1840s, the second wave of feminist theory developed in the 1960s, and the third wave of feminist theory is developing right now What are some of the basic research questions of feminist...

first-wave feminism - The feminist movement during the nineteenth and early twentieth century focused on de jure (officially mandated) inequalities, primarily on gaining women's suffrage. second-wave feminism - The feminist movement starting in the 1960s, particularly in America, where women cam...

Feminism - 1. The movement for social, political, and economic equality of women and men 2. Feminism means that women have the right to enough information to make informed choices about their lives 3. Believe that changes made to advance gender equality will result in benefits to both women and m...

What is feminist theory? - a wide ranging system of ideas about social life and human experiences developed from a woman centered perspective. [woman centered because it examines the situations and experiences of women, tried to describe the social world from the standpoint of women] First wave f...