FEMINISM

Feminist Politics: Where We Stand (Hooks) - A perspective that acknowledges the oppression of women within a patriarchal society and struggles towards the elimination of sexist oppression and domination for all human beings Women's Health From a Feminist Perspective (Low, Bailey) - Much of medicine is androcentric, instead, women's health needs to take into consideration not only differing biologies, but societal issues as well Feminist Model of Care (Low, Bailey) - 1. Being with women, ...

On what grounds have radical feminists claimed that 'the personal is the political'? --Radical feminism has been closely associated with the idea that 'the personal is the political'. By this they mean that female oppression operates in all walks of life, public and private, and in many respects originates in the family itself. -Radical feminists tend to view the process of conditioning in the family, the distribution of housework and other responsibilities and the politics of personal ...

Feminism - Broadly defined, feminism is an ideology and political project based on the belief that men and women are treated unequally socially, politically, and economically. • It aims to identify and abolish the sources of women's oppression in all spheres of life. • There is not one feminism, but rather many feminisms. • The different strands of feminism all agree that women, as a social class, are oppressed by virtue of their gender. • The term gender is one of the most fundam...

All feminists recognise the existence of the patriarchy - Socialist feminists think this would create the biggest dent in the so called patriarchy of male dominance. Simone De Beauvoir noted how men dominated economic life, limiting the life choice of women men use the home to recover from being exploited at the workplace women then keep the house tidy, serving the male. Liberal feminists view on the existence of the patriarchy - would prioritise equality before the law and not the economy...

What are the five feminist principles? - Sex and gender Patriarchy The personal is the political Equality feminism and difference feminism Intersectionality What is the definition of sex? - Biological differnces between men and women Assigned a sex at birth What does it mean to be an equality feminist? - Argue women's nature is socially constructed / determined by society and not biology Which feminist branches have debates concerning sex? - Difference feminism vs equality feminism T...

First Wave - Developed in the mid nineteenth century and was based on political and legal parity with men. Franchise - Also known as the right to vote Mary Wollstonecraft - Wrote the seminal first wave feminist piece of writing 'A vindication of the Rights of Woman' Seneca Falls Convention - Held in 1848 and marked the beginning of the women's rights movement in the US Society for Women's Suffrage - Founded in 1867 in London and began the organized movement of women's rights for the...

What is colorism? - differential treatment based on skin tone that generally manifests itself as a preference for lighter colored skin -a prejudice that continues to exist not only among blacks but also among many POC and whites What does it mean to say someone/something is exoticized? - viewed as exotic, foreign, or unusual in an interesting way -women outside the racial norm have been exoticized in 2 ways: grotesquely sexual or sexually inviting and seductively mysterious Objectificatio...

Liberal feminism - -Early first wave feminism (in 19th and early 20th century) was deeply influenced by liberal ideas in general, and Mary Wollstonecraft in particular. With her view being that both men and women are rational and women acting 'childish' in her society was the effect of social expectation placed on to them. -Liberals were the first to offer equal rights to women -Many second wave feminists (1960-70) took their inspiration from liberal ideas. Perhaps the most famous is Bet...

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...