Feminist Theory 7 RATED A+
What is the context within which feminist theory developed? -✔✔✔The first wave of feminist theory
developed in the 1840s, the second wave of feminist theory developed in the 1960s, and the third wave
of feminist theory is developing right now
What are some of the basic research questions of feminist theory? -✔✔✔How can we achieve equality
for women? How are gender role expectations created, and how are they passed down, generation to
generation? How might perceptions of gender lead to discrimination?
Why is the concept of gender important in feminist theory? -✔✔✔Because the essential qualities of
gender remain a point of theoretical debate within feminism, and these debates offer one way to
distinguish among a few of the varieties of feminist theory. But generally, all feminist theorists can agree
upon an understanding of gender as a social construc.
Main goal of liberal feminists' political agenda -✔✔✔to gain equality with men on the basis of an
essential human capacity for reasoned moral agency, that gender inequality is the result of a sexist
patterning within the division of labor, and that the gender equality can be produced by transforming
the division of labor through the reshaping of key institutions-law, work, family. education, and media.
What is patriarchy? -✔✔✔The most basic stratification arrangements system of domination and
subordination. Men learn how to hold other human beings in conctempt as well as how to control them.
Patriarchy creates guilt and repression, S&M, and manipulation and deception, which all drive men and
women to other forms of tyranny. It is the least noticed yet most significant structure of social
inequality.
Intersectionality theory -✔✔✔Recognizes the fundamental link between ideology and power that
allows dominants to control subordinates by creating a politics where difference becomes a conceptual
tool for justifying arrangements of oppression. There are varying degrees of oppression based on certain
factors.
What is the context within which feminist theory developed? -✔✔✔The first wave of feminist theory
developed in the 1840s, the second wave of feminist theory developed in the 1960s, and the third wave
of feminist theory is developing right now
What are some of the basic research questions of feminist theory? -✔✔✔How can we achieve equality
for women? How are gender role expectations created, and how are they passed down, generation to
generation? How might perceptions of gender lead to discrimination?
Why is the concept of gender important in feminist theory? -✔✔✔Because the essential qualities of
gender remain a point of theoretical debate within feminism, and these debates offer one way to
distinguish among a few of the varieties of feminist theory. But generally, all feminist theorists can agree
upon an understanding of gender as a social construc.
Main goal of liberal feminists' political agenda -✔✔✔to gain equality with men on the basis of an
essential human capacity for reasoned moral agency, that gender inequality is the result of a sexist
patterning within the division of labor, and that the gender equality can be produced by transforming
the division of labor through the reshaping of key institutions-law, work, family. education, and media.
What is patriarchy? -✔✔✔The most basic stratification arrangements system of domination and
subordination. Men learn how to hold other human beings in conctempt as well as how to control them.
Patriarchy creates guilt and repression, S&M, and manipulation and deception, which all drive men and
women to other forms of tyranny. It is the least noticed yet most significant structure of social
inequality.
Intersectionality theory -✔✔✔Recognizes the fundamental link between ideology and power that
allows dominants to control subordinates by creating a politics where difference becomes a conceptual
tool for justifying arrangements of oppression. There are varying degrees of oppression based on certain
factors.
