Feminism Guides d'étude, Notes de cours & Résumés

RSE4801 Assignment 2 2023 (ANSWERS) Introduction This document contains information about assignment 2. The assignment consists of four compulsory questions. Each question contributes 25% to the total mark. Various guidelines and instructions apply to your assignment. Familiarise yourself with the following documents on the module site: · Assessment plan · Assessment – general instructions and guidelines · TL101 · Assignment template · Structure of the assignment Further wr...

LJU4801 Assignment 1 (DETAILED ANSWERS) Semester 2 2024 - DISTINCTION GUARANTEED - DISTINCTION GUARANTEED - DISTINCTION GUARANTEED Answers, guidelines, workings and references .. Question 1 Not yet answered Marked out of 1.00 QUIZ One of the main ideas in legal positivism is that……. 1. law is derived from some eternal set of rules. 2. the idea of law as a social construct makes it impossible to criticise the law. 3. law is based on social agreement. 4. law and morality cannot be...

This is an in-deph summary of the readings and the lectures for this year's Politics of Difference. Please keep note that the readings are not as good and so it is important to do the perusalls in order to understand the intricacies of some of the readings . This summary only provides a somewhat extensive summary of the main key points of the Perusall readings, but really great notes for the lectures. Good luck with the exam!

Feminism A level politics Test Questions with Answers Patriarchy - Answer-The belief that society is dominated by men and run in their interests. Literal meaning is rule by the fathers Implications of patriarchy - Answer-gender is humanity's deepest division, advance sexual politics to address this, sexism is a form of oppression Walby's six structure of patriarchy - Answer-state, household, violence, paid work, sexuality and culture How does the state hold up the patriarchy - Answe...

Briefly outline the 4 waves of feminism - First wave (1850s-1940s): focused on legal and political rights of women, mostly famously via the suffragette movement, culminated in equal suffrage (1928). Second Wave (1960s-80s): focused on the different roles that society expected of men and women. Concepts of patriarchy, sex v. Gender and the personal is the political. Third wave feminism (1990s): concerned with intersectionality, feminism thus far had focused solely on white middle class women...

Race -A social construction - Imposing social meanings onto real and/or imagined physiological characteristic (superiority/inferiority) - A way to legitimize the colonial subjugation/subordination of European colonized and continue to deny them access to resources - Racism in engrained in nation building - Seen as static/fixed, inherent and unchangeable - Socially grounded in politics, capitalism, and unequal social relations among different groups of people - Maintained by dominant elit...

Race -A social construction - Imposing social meanings onto real and/or imagined physiological characteristic (superiority/inferiority) - A way to legitimize the colonial subjugation/subordination of European colonized and continue to deny them access to resources - Racism in engrained in nation building - Seen as static/fixed, inherent and unchangeable - Socially grounded in politics, capitalism, and unequal social relations among different groups of people - Maintained by dominant elit...

What are the core ideas and principles? - -Most of these core ideas and principles are associated with the second wave radical feminism. -Radical feminism introduced new ideas and concepts for discussing and challenging the role of women in society. -Although there has been discussion before it has mostly been arranged around the language of liberalism or socialism. 5 Key ideas - -Sex and gender. -Patriarchy. -The personal is political. -Equality and difference feminism. -Intersectiona...

Origins and developments -- Feminist ideas can be traced back to the ancient civilisations of Greece and China - Christine De Pisan's Book of the City of Ladies published in Italy (1405) foreshadowed many ideas of modern feminism such as advocating women's rights to education - The first text of modern feminism is Mary Wollstonecraft's the Vindication of the Rights of Women (1792) - By the mid 19th C the women's movement acquired a central focus which was the right to vote Origins and...

Liberal feminism - -Early first wave feminism (in 19th and early 20th century) was deeply influenced by liberal ideas in general, and Mary Wollstonecraft in particular. With her view being that both men and women are rational and women acting 'childish' in her society was the effect of social expectation placed on to them. -Liberals were the first to offer equal rights to women -Many second wave feminists (1960-70) took their inspiration from liberal ideas. Perhaps the most famous is Bet...