Feminism QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
A LEVEL
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; liberal feminism, socialist feminist, Marxist
feminism, radical feminism - ✔✔✔Jaggar 1983
Due to the gender system there are autonomy deficits that have ben caused by the patriarchal nature of
inherited traditions and institutions - ✔✔✔Okin
Private/public dichotomy sequesters the private sphere, and any harm that may occur there for women,
away from public scrutiny - ✔✔✔Pateman 1983
Procedural accounts of personal autonomy suggest this means women are entitled to a broad range of
autonomy-enabling conditions - ✔✔✔MacKenzie and Stoljar
Laws restricting women's employment options (freedom from limits set by moralistic or paternalistic
laws) - ✔✔✔Smith 2004
, Argues for paternalistic interventions (against liberal theory) in the case of breast implant surgery -
discriminatory social norm - non-paternalistic because it enforces rather than contradicts the preferenes
of the individual whose choice it interferes with - ✔✔✔Chambers 2008
Feminization of poverty - ✔✔✔Pearce
Advocates of procedural accounts of personal autonomy have to accept that people might make
deformed preferences - because liberal feminism values freedom and thus cannot directly advocate
'preference education' - ✔✔✔Cudd
Using contractualist tradition to describe how heterosexual relationships often fail to be fair or just - ✔
✔✔Hampton
Capabilities approach - ✔✔✔Nussbaum
Proposes an account of the good life that has at its heart a profoundly liberal idea - idea of citizen as a
free and dignified human being, maker of choices - health, affiliation, political participation, and a good
life is enjoying all the major functionings, and to flourish - ✔✔✔Nussbaum
Worries that capabilities approach says that the goal of women's movement is to bring women a
particular way of life, one where they can function in these ways, rather than freeing them up to find
their own way - ✔✔✔Cudd
Some hold that the state should promote justice in the family by the sharing of paid and unpaid labour -
✔✔✔Okin
Rawls didn't include sex behind the veil of ignorance but does include it in... - ✔✔✔Fairness to
Goodness
A LEVEL
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; liberal feminism, socialist feminist, Marxist
feminism, radical feminism - ✔✔✔Jaggar 1983
Due to the gender system there are autonomy deficits that have ben caused by the patriarchal nature of
inherited traditions and institutions - ✔✔✔Okin
Private/public dichotomy sequesters the private sphere, and any harm that may occur there for women,
away from public scrutiny - ✔✔✔Pateman 1983
Procedural accounts of personal autonomy suggest this means women are entitled to a broad range of
autonomy-enabling conditions - ✔✔✔MacKenzie and Stoljar
Laws restricting women's employment options (freedom from limits set by moralistic or paternalistic
laws) - ✔✔✔Smith 2004
, Argues for paternalistic interventions (against liberal theory) in the case of breast implant surgery -
discriminatory social norm - non-paternalistic because it enforces rather than contradicts the preferenes
of the individual whose choice it interferes with - ✔✔✔Chambers 2008
Feminization of poverty - ✔✔✔Pearce
Advocates of procedural accounts of personal autonomy have to accept that people might make
deformed preferences - because liberal feminism values freedom and thus cannot directly advocate
'preference education' - ✔✔✔Cudd
Using contractualist tradition to describe how heterosexual relationships often fail to be fair or just - ✔
✔✔Hampton
Capabilities approach - ✔✔✔Nussbaum
Proposes an account of the good life that has at its heart a profoundly liberal idea - idea of citizen as a
free and dignified human being, maker of choices - health, affiliation, political participation, and a good
life is enjoying all the major functionings, and to flourish - ✔✔✔Nussbaum
Worries that capabilities approach says that the goal of women's movement is to bring women a
particular way of life, one where they can function in these ways, rather than freeing them up to find
their own way - ✔✔✔Cudd
Some hold that the state should promote justice in the family by the sharing of paid and unpaid labour -
✔✔✔Okin
Rawls didn't include sex behind the veil of ignorance but does include it in... - ✔✔✔Fairness to
Goodness
