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Feminism (Radical (evaluation (Fails to see any “consensus” in terms of…

- - - - The political economy of women's liberation
      - Women do profitable unpaid housework---use value & Men work---exchange value
      - Nuclear family structure facilitates & perpetuates capitalism:
      - mutual economic reliance Reproduction Women→emotional needs * Men forced to work
      - Women are not Structurally responsible for earning money,
        BUT ARE reserve army of labour
      - Equal work opportunity & shared responsibility at home → equal status
      - New financial tools failed to liberate women
      - Fail to explain in detail the brutality of asymmetrical family structure on women
    - - “Takers of shit”
      - unhappy and lack of satisfaction
      - women act as a “safety valve”
      - Ansley(1976):“When wives play their traditional role as takers of shit, they often absorb their husbands’ legitimate anger and frustration at their own powerlessness and oppression. With every worker provided with a sponge to soak up his possibly revolutionary ire, the bosses rest more secure.”
      - *Frustration is absorbed by the comforting wife.
      - *Family functions to stabilize adult personalities in to a Marxist framework.—Parsons
    - - The International Wages for Housework Campaign was a global, social movement co-founded in 1972in Padua, Italy
      - In 1973à US & In 1974à Brooklyn, New York
      - Raise awareness of how housework and childcare are the base of all industrial work and these should be paid, wage labour
      - A raging debate followed about whether caring full-time was “work” or a “role”—and whether it should be compensated with wage
- - - - language is not the only factor shaping gender
      - difficult to have stable and abiding terms for woman and define what interest should be representing
      - hard to identify a single 'univeral or hegemonic structure of patriarchy or mascuine domination'
      - distinction of sex and gender is outdated--PERFORMANCE: people act rather than being
    - - Attacks phallocentrism
      - Relativism- intertextuality: any single text can never stand alone or be finally determined
      - Binary Oppositions: one is suppressed, the other is superior(e.g.sensible/intelligible, speech/writing)
      - Borrows idea from Swiss Linguist
    - - Language is male-dominated (phallocentric)
      - Female sexuality (jouissance) is more subtle and varied. Feminine perspective is repressed and needs to escape
      - The concept of masculine economy - establishes a military-style rule over women
      - Femininity and masculinity can exist in both sexes. If women can speak out and express the joy of femininity, both men and women can benefit.
    - - Recognises the existence of dualisms but puts more emphasis on the role of metaphors
      - Difficult to understand the experiences of women using a male-dominated language
      - There should be an acceptance of different viewpoints
  - - - Stress on the diversity that other feminism do not mention
      - point out the language aspect
    - - Wably(1992)
        
        Concepts such as ‘patriarchy’ are valid even between different groups of women
        
        Women as a whole are disadvantaged. The exploitation is world wide
      - Tong(1998)
        
        Difference within postmodern feminist. (diversity&distinctive)
        
        Postmodern Feminism celebrate fundamental difference between men and women
        
        Emphasis on language leads to a neglect of other sources of inequality.(e.g. physical force of men/inequality in wealth and status)