SIMILARITIES DIFFERENCES
ALL AGREE WE SHOULD BE FREE TO CHOOSE HOW WE ACHIEVE THAT FREEDOM -
WHAT WE WANT TO DO IN LIFE - the same is for
the relationships we pursue - must end patriarchy LIBERALS - state reform and education to break the
cycle of male superiority
BEAUVOIR - we are “condemned to be free” - FRIEDAN - "There needs to be a political
human nature is always in the making i.e. by nature movement for women's equality” - SPEECH - thus
we should be able to change freely and make the believed in organised political effort to influence the
decision that is right for us state
BEAUVOIR - also saw it as necessarily, but said “No
MILLET - patriarchy’s “primary political purpose”, reform can bring woman liberty unless it
is the “control of women” - it is not in our nature to operates in her consciousness”
follow patriarchy, and humans by nature are not
patriarchal - it is organised to limit our freedom of RADICALS - reforms by liberals didn't go far enough
choice - men still dominate here and the state is still an
agent of patriarchy
WALBY - 6 areas where patriarchy exists - state, MILLET - “they are not sufficient. The situation
culture, violence, work, household, sexuality can be resolved only by a total revolution” in
domestic life
SOCIALISTS - ROWBOTHAM - "revolutionary
transformation of society as a whole."- abolish
capitalism
Comes down to the person is political -
DEVELOPED BY HANISCH - each have different
views on where the patriarchy is rooted - liberals
believe that we shouldn’t go beyond the private
sphere and should only use legislation to end
patriarchy, but radicals believe patriarchy goes far
deeper than just institutions and rather it begins in
the family, and so even the private is political, and by
publicising this we can address this problem
ALL AGREE sex and gender are distinct - sex EQUALITY VS DIFFERENCE FEMINISM -
refers to the biological differences - gender refers to
cultural and economic differences - agree on the EQUALITY FEMINISM
definitions - sex differences do not justify gender BEAUVOIR - the liberation of women is a matter of
distinctions - androgynous “affirming equality in their difference."
BEAUVOIR - “one is not born a woman, but DIFFERENCE FEMINISM
rather becomes, a woman” - acceptance of bell hooks - embraces differences and feminine
biological sex differences, but our gender identity is values across all women - intersectionality, not just
not innate - our roles should not entirely be white middle class women
determined by our biological sex - not natural
SEPARATISM -
MILLET - the patriarchal system determines “the DWORKINS - where there are female spaces away
very way we understand the meaning of sex and from men
gender." - this influences our gender roles, and is
NOT innate -