Feminism
Society
Family
Education
Key figures
Feminism has provided Western women with increased educational opportunities
the right to vote, protections against workplace discrimination, and the right to make personal decisions about pregnancy
feminism has also succeeded in challenging pervasive cultural norms about women
live free and empowered lives, without being tied down to 'traditional' restrictions
to challenge the systemic inequalities women face on a daily basis
Families are not “natural” orderings, but social institutions backed up by laws
marriage is a social institution
private realms of family, sex and reproduction
opposes the rise of other types of families and favours the conventional two-parent family structure
most feminists believe the education system reinforces patriarchy and/or inequality
strives for equality of the sexes, not superiority for women
education is an agent of secondary socialisation that helps to enforce patriarchy
Lucretia Mott
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Susan B. Anthony