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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...

Human nature for feminists - Women have biological differences but they are irrelevant. essentialism - we must take the differences into account to help women. What did betty Frieden say about imposing expectations on themselves? - women impose the role of children on themselves. The state for socialist feminists - Say that the current state oppresses women (as it does lower classes) with the patriarchy and economically. The state for liberal feminists - The state should help women through...

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...

I hardly believe the fair sex is capable of principles - Kant Though questioning the natural differences between men and women, says in one book that participation enlarges the self, and in another assumes women choose the domestic life - Mill We own what we produce, yet women work hard to produce what they never expect to own. - Nozick Point of political philosophy 'not only to understand the world but to change it' - Marx & Engels Grouped feminist political philosophy into four camps;...

Waves of Feminism - - First Wave Feminism: Emerged in the mid 19th century and concentrated on the campaign for the vote and equal legal rights. In the UK it ended with the extension of the vote to women in 1918 and full suffrage in 1928. - Second Wave Feminism: Held to have started in the 1960s. It focused on the personal, psychological and social aspects of women's oppression ad aimed for liberation rather than reform. - Third Wave Feminism: Has moved feminism away from the aims of educa...

What do all Feminists agree upon? - - Conflict theory (conflict between men and women) - Gender inequality exists in all areas of society - ^^ This is a result of patriarchy - The study society rom the viewpoint of women and seek to liberate women from oppression. What do Liberal feminists think will create gender equality? - - Legal reforms+ socialisation to change attitudes= gender equality. -Gender quake- women are surpassing men in educational achievement, attitudes towards women chan...

Feminism - A movement that seeks to obtain the social, political, and economic equality of men and women Ecuador - Removed male from constitution requirements for citizenship in the Constitution of 1896 Dr. Matilde Hidalgo - Wanted to sign up to vote in 1922 but was denied for being a woman, she voted in 1925 Constitution of 1929 - Female vote is now incorporated after a military dictatorship took over Argentina - Juan Perón at the insistence of his wife Eva Perón have women the right t...

7 types of feminism - Radical, Liberal, Marxist, Difference, Black, Post structural and Dual system Radical feminism - They blame men for women's oppression. Men dominate and control women in all areas of society, both public and private. What is the solution of oppression to radical feminists? - Separatism Consciousness raising Political lesbianism Examples of male domination in private - Domestic violence (Dobash and Dobash) Taker's of shit (Ansley) Triple shift (Duncombe and Marsden...

Why is it important to study gender? - Gender is the perceived masculinity or feminitiy, it extends past the biological aspects of sex-gender is directly associated with ones identity, gender norms help affirm authority within relationships (especially in the political arena); Gender is learned through social norms and reinforcement in different cultures. Socially and politically gender plays a role in patriarchal societies as more masculine members of society gain leverage and dominance ove...