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Feminists, society, change, means - Coggle Diagram
Feminists, society, change, means
Simone de Beauvoir
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Women must be granted the opportunity to make as many choices as men (equality of opportunity). This will be achieved through education, economic freedom, state funded childcare, and available contraception
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bell hooks
hooks criticises feminists for not recognising other forms of oppression, other than for white women
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Two stage struggle: Creating a more equal society, destroying multiple disadvantages, and secondly, men need to understand the patriarchy and women need to break free of preconceptions about themselves
Sheila Rowbotham
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Women must also be freed from oppression in the home life, personal relationships and wider culture
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Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Women needed equality in the world of employment, instead of being socialised from an early age to be mothers and homemakers
Compared women to horses, in that they are economic instruments but not as important as the men
Destruction of the traditional nuclear family and replacement with communal childcare and housework shared between men and women will provide women with economic equality
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Liberal Feminism
Women should be free to choose the nature of their own lives (they should enjoy equality of opportunity)
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Women should have formal equality in all fields, especially in legislation
Radical Feminism
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Revolutionary in outlook, not normally favouring violet revolution though
Support abolition of the nuclear family, sexual liberation from the male domination in relationships and elimination of biological roles
Removal of biological roles can be accomplished through science. Firestone imagined a world where women don't need men to reproduce
Socialist Feminism
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Power needs to be distributed more equally, especially for working class women
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Postmodern Feminism
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Women must have freedom to choose - relationships, work life, home life