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Post-Modernism Feminism - Coggle Diagram
Post-Modernism Feminism
Post modernism feminism is the idea of rejecting the fixed ideas of various theorists such as radicals and socialists and thus, post-modernism sees the position of women as a complex problem with many competing explanations and solutions
Post-modernists also stress the importance of language in carrying forward patriarchal attitudes and sexism. This has given rise to criticism of political correctness BUT such feminists continue to insist that gender stereotypes are perpetuated by vocabulary
Post Modern feminism proposes that women must be given the freedom to make choices for themselves and for some, this may entail taking on a 'traditional and domestic' role in the family BUT for others it could entail competing with men on an equal basis
This is the same for sexuality as women must choose the nature of their relationship with men or other women without resorting to traditional feminist attitudes.
Each woman has her own unique experience of life and therefore, she must liberate herself in her own way
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bell hooks was born Gloria Watkins and she adopted the name of her great grandmother, not capitalising it to differentiate her from her great grandmother
hooks is a radical Black feminist who focused upon intersectionality and that different groups within society faced inequality as well as women
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bell hooks mainly belongs to the contemporary branch of the movement known as post modern feminism as she is attempting to break the movement free of its traditional perspective and to accept modern realities
bell hooks' views
hooks criticises many feminists for not recognising the reality of numerous inequalities.
They have concentrated too much on women, especially white, middle class women. Using her perspective as a Black woman, she asserts that women like her will achieve equality only if black people as a whole achieve equality
hooks believed that white women did not suffer the same problems that black women, LGBTQ women and other women of colour faced. This is intersectionality, a confluence of multiple forms of discrimination and oppression makes feminist aims more complex than appreciated.
- This means men have a valid role to play because they can enter the struggle against inequality between all groups
hooks believed that the patriarchy had taught women to hate themselves and see themselves as inferior which she talked about in her influential work: Feminism is for Everybody (2000)
for hooks, the struggle against the patriarchy should have 2 elements
1) the creation of a more equal society so that the multiple disadvantages faced by women can be reduced and eliminated
2) This concerns the relationships between men and women. Men must come to understand the patriarchy that they are imposing whilst women must break free of the preconceptions about themselves which are the product of men's domination of sexual culture.
In her more romantic passages, bell hooks speaks of the power of love to conquer unhealthy relationships but above all, she argues that women need to 'unlearn self-hatred' and 'no longer see ourselves and our bodies as the property of men'