Feminism types ALREADY PASSED
Liberal feminism - ✔✔✔to create a world in which people are judged for their individual characteristics
without regard to sex. - Liberal feminists do tend to work through the system more than radfems or
marxfems;
- liberal feminists believe that many social problems can be meaningfully addressed through the
government, which will gradually bring about social change
- libfems are the most likely feminists to form groups like NOW and the Feminist Majority, groups which
try to advance a wide range of feminist issues through legislative and lawsuit strategies.
Radical feminism - ✔✔✔- they would argue that fighting male supremacy is necessary to get at the
root of both problems
- while fighting racism doesn't necessarily do anything to fight male supremacy, fighting male supremacy
does, by definition, help to reduce racist oppression
Marxist feminism - ✔✔✔- tend to see class oppression "" the ongoing battle over who does the
producing and who reaps the rewards of production "" as the "root" oppression on which all other
oppressions are modeled
- Sexist oppression is a form of class oppression. Marxfems have thus done a lot of useful analysis on
how production is gendered, and how women's larger share of domestic labor means that women do
more producing while getting fewer rewards.
Socialist feminism - ✔✔✔- distinguished by its emphasis on material and economic inequality
- socialist feminists, like other socialists, look at culture as a whole and ask, "who controls the
resources?" and "which institutions are keeping those people in control of the resources?" But unlike
non-feminist socialists, socfems answer those questions by talking not only about class but also about
patriarchy.
Cultural Feminism - ✔✔✔- cultural feminism retreated to vanguardism, working instead to build a
women's cultue
Liberal feminism - ✔✔✔to create a world in which people are judged for their individual characteristics
without regard to sex. - Liberal feminists do tend to work through the system more than radfems or
marxfems;
- liberal feminists believe that many social problems can be meaningfully addressed through the
government, which will gradually bring about social change
- libfems are the most likely feminists to form groups like NOW and the Feminist Majority, groups which
try to advance a wide range of feminist issues through legislative and lawsuit strategies.
Radical feminism - ✔✔✔- they would argue that fighting male supremacy is necessary to get at the
root of both problems
- while fighting racism doesn't necessarily do anything to fight male supremacy, fighting male supremacy
does, by definition, help to reduce racist oppression
Marxist feminism - ✔✔✔- tend to see class oppression "" the ongoing battle over who does the
producing and who reaps the rewards of production "" as the "root" oppression on which all other
oppressions are modeled
- Sexist oppression is a form of class oppression. Marxfems have thus done a lot of useful analysis on
how production is gendered, and how women's larger share of domestic labor means that women do
more producing while getting fewer rewards.
Socialist feminism - ✔✔✔- distinguished by its emphasis on material and economic inequality
- socialist feminists, like other socialists, look at culture as a whole and ask, "who controls the
resources?" and "which institutions are keeping those people in control of the resources?" But unlike
non-feminist socialists, socfems answer those questions by talking not only about class but also about
patriarchy.
Cultural Feminism - ✔✔✔- cultural feminism retreated to vanguardism, working instead to build a
women's cultue
