Please enable JavaScript.

Coggle requires JavaScript to display documents.

Feminist Theory - Coggle Diagram

- - - - Proposition:
        Feminism must be intersectional and anti-capitalist
      - "The only true path of liberation for black people is the one that leads toward a complete and total overthrow of the capitalist class in this country and all its manifold institutional appendages." "I am a Revolutionary Black Woman" (1970)
    - - Proposition:
        Capitalism relies on the unpaid reproductive labor of women, especially in the home, to sustain the workforce.
      - “[V]iolence against women is a key element in this new global war, not only because of the horror it evokes or the messages it sends but because of what women represent in their capacity to keep their communities together and, equally important, to defend noncommercial conceptions of security and wealth.” - "Witches, Witch-Hunting, and Women" (2018)
- - - - Proposition: Gender is not something one is or has, but is something one does. Gender is Performative
      - "There is no gender identity behind the expressions of gender... identity is performatively constituted by the very 'expressions' that are said to be its results." (Gender Trouble, p. 25)
  - - - The categories “man” and “woman” are socially constructed and do not capture the full range of gender experience.
    - - Queer feminism sees identity as unstable, not rooted in biology. - Butler
      - There’s no universal “woman’s experience” — not all people assigned female at birth identify as women, and not all women experience oppression the same way.