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Feminism - Coggle Diagram
Feminism
Socialist Feminists
Sex and Gender
Kate Millet - social construction began in the family unit in childhood so gender roles are not natural.
Charlotte Perkins Gilman - gender roles are socially constructed from a young age in which women are socialized into thinking themselves weaker than men resulting in superficial ideas of men as aggressive and women as maternal
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Patriarchy
Sheila Rowbotham - women have always been oppressed by the patriarchy and capitalism so the only way to fix this is for a revolution to destroy capitalism and the patriarchy.
Economy
Sheila Rowbotham - capitalism makes women a reserve army of Labor (exploited for labor purposes when men are away), men take refuge in the family from the trials of capitalism
Charlotte Perkins Gilman - capitalism manages to exploit women by forcing them to do unpaid domestic labor but believes that the workplace with become more technologically advanced so gender differences wont matter.
Radical Feminists
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Patriarchy
focus on patriarchy within private and public sphere, is too pervasive to be reformed so must face revolutionary change (different feminists disagree over what this revolutionary change should be)
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Economy
Improvement of women's position in the economy would be positive but will not lead to equality - needs to be social revolution combined with economic.
Liberal Feminists
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Patriarchy
there is female discrimination in society and economy instead of a patriarchy which can be reformed by the state, with examples such as - female emancipation, legalization of abortion and acts on workplace equality
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Post modernist Feminists
Sex and Gender
bell hooks - social construction begins in the family unit so gender roles are not natural or inevitable
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