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
characterized by the quest for equal rights and opportunity in public and political life.
What is socialist feminism? - ✔✔✔Largely derived from Marxism, highlights links between female
subordination and the capitalist code of production, drawing attention to the economic significant of
women being confined to the family or domestic life.
What is radical feminism? - ✔✔✔They are beyond perspectives of established political traditions
portraying gender divisions as the most fundamental and political significant cleavages in society and
calling for restructuring of personal, domestic, and family life
-"the personal is in political"
When was the first wave of feminism and what happened? - ✔✔✔-Was closely associated with the
women's suffrage movement (1840's-1850's)
-Most western countries had female suffrage in earth 20th century: campaign for legal and civil rights
assumed a lower profile and deprived women's movement of a unified focus.