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Feminism

Politics

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Sex refers to the biological differences between men and women
Gender refers to the different roles that society ascribes to men and women
Patriarchy society, state and the economy are characterised by systematic, institutionalised and pervasive gender oppression
Personal is Political the idea that all relationships, both in society and in private relationships, between men and women are based on power and dominance
Equality Feminism seek equality for men and women in society
Difference Feminism argue that men and women have a fundamentally different nature from one another
Intersectionality argues that black and working-class women's experiences of patriarchy in state, society and the economy are different from white, middle-class women
Liberal Feminism see individualism as the basis of gender equality
Socialist Feminism believe that gender inequality stems from economics and that capitalism creates
Radical Feminism believe that the biggest problem facing society is gender inequality
Post-Modern Feminism argue that patriarchy manifests in different ways depending on a woman's race/class
Charlotte Perkins Gilman (1860-1935) believed that sex & domestic economics are hand in hand and societal pressure conditions children into distinct genders
Simone de Beauvoir (1908-1986) believed that 'one is not born, but rather becomes, a woman' and otherness - men are perceived as the 'norm' and women are deviant from this
Kate Millett (1934- ) believed that undoing family was key to true sexual revolution and that women are portrayed in art and literature in a degrading way
Sheila Rowbotham (1943- ) believed that capitalism meant that women are forced to sell labour to survive and use their labor to support family and that family is an instrument for men to take refuge from alienation in capitalist economies
bell hooks (1952- ) bought the cultural concerns of women of colour into the mainstream feminist movement and believed in intersectionality
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