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Feminist key thinkers
Sheila Rowbotham
greatest advances for women have taken place following socialist revolution. The needed a revolution within a revolution.
women cannot be free until capitalism is destoryed, under capitalism women will not escape from patriarchy, best hope for female liberation lies with a socialist future.
ending patriarchy is the task of men as well as women, women cannot destroy the patriarchy on their own.
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Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Women can play an equal role in modern economics, nature of economic activity has changed so women now have a full place in employment, state should seek to ensure economic freedom.
'there is no female mind', women have equal brain power so should have an equal place in employment.
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from childhood young girls are forced to conform to a domestic role and motherhood. she argues that there should be no difference in the clothes that little girls and boys wear, and what toys they play with/activities they do.
Kate Millet
nuclear family is a tool of patriarchy so must be destroyed. (e.g children to traditional roles, women expected to carry out domestic work, women expected to cater for emotional and sexual needs of their husbands)
socialisation gives men power, and denies women power.
Female oppression was both political and cultural. undoing the traditional family was the key to a true sexual revolution.
the main contribution of the family to patriarchy was the socialisation of the young into patriarchal attitudes.
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bell hooks
girls are socialised to change themselves to please others and boys are socialised to be emotionless.
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solidarity is important between genders, races and class.
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the need to articulate and recognise a feminist theory of empowerment that was accessible to people of colour.
Simeone de Beauvoir
advocated legal abortion and contraception, state funded childcare to liberate women.
'One is not born, but rather becomes a woman' said that women are taught and socilaised to d o what is preceived to be a women.
She called motherhood a way of turning women into slaves as they were forced to focus on motherhood and femininity instead of politics,
Otherness - men are the norm; women are 'other'. Women have accpted their otherness. Women were not just inferioir in the eye of men but in their own eyes too.
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