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What is feminism? - A political movement and ideology that aims to advance social rile of women. What are the two beliefs that characterize feminism? - -Women and men are treated differently because of their sex -Unequal treatment can and should be overturned What is the central concept of feminism? - Patriarchy, draws attention to the totality of oppression and exploitation to which women are subject. What is liberal feminism? - The commitment to individualism and formal equality, and is...

first wave -(1830's - early1900's) -Women's right to vote, as well as fight for equal contract and property rights -Seneca Falls -Susan B Anthony second wave -(1960's-1980's) - Focused on the workplace, sexuality, family and reproductive rights/reproductive justice. - Betty Friedan - Margaret Sanger third wave -refers to several diverse strains of feminist activity and study, whose exact boundaries in the history of feminism are a subject of debate, but are generally marked as begi...

What do radical feminists (old feminists) dislike about the 4th wave? E.g. Kate Millett - 2nd wave believe you shouldn't conform to the patriarchy's demands whereas the 4th wave believe you should wear what you like to feel empowered. Believe women had a choice regarding the Harvey Weinstein scandal Feel uncomfortable accepting transgender women as women as they have not had the same prejudices against them e.g. reproductive rights. Sex - The biological differences between men and women ...

On what grounds have radical feminists claimed that 'the personal is the political'? --Radical feminism has been closely associated with the idea that 'the personal is the political'. By this they mean that female oppression operates in all walks of life, public and private, and in many respects originates in the family itself. -Radical feminists tend to view the process of conditioning in the family, the distribution of housework and other responsibilities and the politics of personal ...

Feminism - Broadly defined, feminism is an ideology and political project based on the belief that men and women are treated unequally socially, politically, and economically. • It aims to identify and abolish the sources of women's oppression in all spheres of life. • There is not one feminism, but rather many feminisms. • The different strands of feminism all agree that women, as a social class, are oppressed by virtue of their gender. • The term gender is one of the most fundam...

All feminists recognise the existence of the patriarchy - Socialist feminists think this would create the biggest dent in the so called patriarchy of male dominance. Simone De Beauvoir noted how men dominated economic life, limiting the life choice of women men use the home to recover from being exploited at the workplace women then keep the house tidy, serving the male. Liberal feminists view on the existence of the patriarchy - would prioritise equality before the law and not the economy...

What are the five feminist principles? - Sex and gender Patriarchy The personal is the political Equality feminism and difference feminism Intersectionality What is the definition of sex? - Biological differnces between men and women Assigned a sex at birth What does it mean to be an equality feminist? - Argue women's nature is socially constructed / determined by society and not biology Which feminist branches have debates concerning sex? - Difference feminism vs equality feminism T...

First Wave - Developed in the mid nineteenth century and was based on political and legal parity with men. Franchise - Also known as the right to vote Mary Wollstonecraft - Wrote the seminal first wave feminist piece of writing 'A vindication of the Rights of Woman' Seneca Falls Convention - Held in 1848 and marked the beginning of the women's rights movement in the US Society for Women's Suffrage - Founded in 1867 in London and began the organized movement of women's rights for the...

What is colorism? - differential treatment based on skin tone that generally manifests itself as a preference for lighter colored skin -a prejudice that continues to exist not only among blacks but also among many POC and whites What does it mean to say someone/something is exoticized? - viewed as exotic, foreign, or unusual in an interesting way -women outside the racial norm have been exoticized in 2 ways: grotesquely sexual or sexually inviting and seductively mysterious Objectificatio...

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...