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Cultural diversity theories
Feminist Theory
Women deserve equality in
Employment
Politics
Education
Global diversity of women
Address patriarchy
Deeply rooted socially, politically and legally
Inequalities wome face due to race
Encourages sexual & reproductive freedom
Argue the claim that women are inferior to men
Critical Race Theory
Based on law, sociology, history, ethnic and women's studies
Can transform structural and cultural aspects
Cultural Capital: The disadvantaged
Focus on communities of colour
Elements
Centrality of race and racism with other forms of subordination
Race and racism are permanent
Based on gender, class, immigration status, accent and sexuality
Challenge to dominate idealogy
Dominant groups
Tradition claims act as a self-interest mechanism and privileges
White privilege, meritocracy, race neutrality and equal opportunity
Commitment to social justice
Offers transformative responses to racial, gender and class oppression
works towards elimination of racism, sexism, power
Empowers people of colour
Transdisciplinary perspective
Looks at historical / contemporary contexts
Draws on scholarship from ethnic studies
Centrality of experiential knowledge
Racial subordination
Storytelling and narratives
Biographies
Family history
Types of Feminist Theories
Radical Feminism
Emphasis on the roots on inequality
Sceptical of political action
Militant approach to patriarchy
Resorts to strikes/rallies to be heard
Lesbianism Rights
Reproductive rights to birth, abortion, contraception
Critiques motherhood
Liberal Feminism
Equal opportunities as men
Focus on marriage, divorce, child-care laws
Equality and Freedom
Societal benefits from the contribution of women
Acknowledge black women and working class women
Marxist Feminism
Class dynamics of capitalism
Woman oppressed for being female and a worker
Being a domestic workers devalues a woman
Need for a revolution
Psychoanalytic Feminism
Reinforced from infancy and childhood
Freudian notion that women are inferior to men
Gender identity, language & mothering
Inferior social status of women
Post-modern Feminists
Gender constituted by actions, talk and presence
Patriarchy differs according to the class of the woman
Promotes gender equality in society
