FEMINISM

What is Islamic Feminist Discourse? -- Derived from the Qu'ran - Advocates gender equality (which is affirmed by the Qu'ran + prevented/subverted by patriarchal ideas & practices) - The fiqh in 9th Classic 9th century was saturated with patriarchal ideas which impacted the Sharia (which today gives women less rights than men) Liberal Feminism -- Women's subordination is because they aren't integrated with the public sphere -believe that they need to integrate women into the courts and...

New Social Movements --emerged in the 1960s -challenged traditional political allegiances of .Western liberal politics .Worker-based movements (labor unions) .State socialism (Western and Eastern Europe) .broad-based and identity-based Broad-Based Movements -.Civil rights movements .Anti-Vietnam War activism .Environmental movement .Free speech on campus movement Identity-based Movements --Black Power Movement -American Indian Movement -Chicano/a Movement (La Raza) -Feminist Movemen...

Patriarchal - describes a society or culture dominated by men. Other - denotes "different from" and not as important as the privileged term of a binary. I.e. women, the colonized. Sexual Politics - posits that economic inequality and ideological indoctrination have been the chief causes of women's oppression. Also denotes distinctions between sex and gender. Gynocriticism - defines the process of constructing "a female framework for the analysis of women's literature to develop new mo...

Feminism -the belief that women should possess the same political and economic rights as men Equal Pay Act -made it illegal for employers to pay female workers less than men for the same job Betty Friedan -American Feminist, writer of The Feminine Mystique, cofounded NOW National Organization of Women -Feminist political group formed in 1967 to promote legislative change. Lobbied for the Equal Right Amendment (and failed). Gloria Steinem -founder and original publisher of Ms. magazine, and...

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...

Radical Feminism is -DISMANTLING PATRIARCHY Where did Radical Feminism come from? -Started in the late 1960s Grew out of the women's liberation movement Sees women's oppression as the root of all oppression (radical = 'of the roots') Not allied to pre-existing political/ philosophical systems - the first such system to be overtly woman- centred (by women, for women) Key concept: "the personal is political" How does radical feminism explain gender inequalities? -As a product of male ...

Feminism: BASICS --Inequality in every society, women inferior, feminism rectifies -Gender norms are social constructs designed to discriminate against/oppress women. Children socialised this way -Patriarchy=female disadvantage -Political activism to rectify systematic injustice -Work with govs for social policies to better equality Liberal Feminists: Gradual change --In political, economic and social systems -In culture/values/children's books/toys -Changes in existing in structure Li...

Feminism -the belief that women should possess the same political and economic rights as men Feminism key concepts -- It is a conflict theory which suggests that there is a patriarchal oppression towards women in society - That sociology is male stream where male thinkers only focus on the issue's men face in society - It has evolved to deal with the contemporary issues and the intersectionality of women Intersectionality -the interconnected nature of social categorizations such as race, c...

Androgynous Androgynous means being neither male nor female nor both male and female. Feminism holds that human nature is androgynous. -This relates to the feminist idea of men and women being equal due to our human nature being equal. Sex vs Gender -sex is the biological criteria to signify whether an individual is male or female. There are 3 sexes male, female, and intersex. -gender is social construct and defined as the configurations of behaviour or activities involved in being mascu...

first wave -(1830's - early1900's) -Women's right to vote, as well as fight for equal contract and property rights -Seneca Falls -Susan B Anthony second wave -(1960's-1980's) - Focused on the workplace, sexuality, family and reproductive rights/reproductive justice. - Betty Friedan - Margaret Sanger third wave -refers to several diverse strains of feminist activity and study, whose exact boundaries in the history of feminism are a subject of debate, but are generally marked as begi...