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Feminism Human Nature
Simone de Beauvoir
Characterised the idea that women were seen as other to men, in a way that men chose
de Beauvoir rejects the idea that women are born with any natural caring instinct, and they learn it from parents and schooling
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"one is not born, but rather becomes, a woman"
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
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Girls are socialised from an early age to take on motherhood. Confinement to the home is not biologically determined
Campaigned for the destruction of the nuclear family and replacement of it with forms of communal living
Gender
Pre-feminist cultural perspectives deemed women less important than men because homemaking was seen as less important than earning outside the home
Liberal feminists, e.g. Betty Friedan, argue that gender differences are created by the patriarchal society, and that there is no reason for sex differences to be converted into gender differences
Inferiority of women is leaned behaviour by both men and women, and is reinforced by education and cultural institutions.
Radical feminists would say that gender differences exist in all areas of life, and need to be destroyed by a cultural revolution
Socialist feminists see inferior status of women as bound up in the capitalist project, and women, like workers, are an oppressed class
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Sex differences
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Essential feminists believe that sex differences explain the inferior status of women and are very important
Radical feminists would say that sex differences determined the inferior status of women but should be irrelevant today
. Some radical feminists even believe that sex differences should be eradicated altogether and men and women should coexist without sexual relations.
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bell hooks
Women need to break free of the patriarchy that is imposed upon them, and men need to realise that they're imposing a patriarchy
Kate Millet
If women are able to accept their lesbianism, they place themselves on the road to liberation