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Feminism: - Coggle Diagram
Feminism:
The Patriarchy:
Features include: Inequality in paid work, roles within the household, culture, sexuality, violence and the state.
Liberal feminists: difference between public and private sphere, but mostly use the term to draw attention to the unequal distribution of rights and opportunities in society.
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Socialist feminists: gender inequality is a consequence of the class system and that capitalism, as the creator of patriarchy is the main issue.
Radical feminists: systematic, institutionalised and pervasive male power, mirrored in public and private life.
Post-modern feminism: patriarchy mutates in different cultures and classes, they point to differences across the world and cultures.
Equality and Difference:
Most feminists want equality with men - the fault line come when examining that equality more. Some feminists reject this entirely. These are Difference feminists.
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Socialist: equality feminists, equal rights are needed in both public and also in the home - We need to remove capitalism to achieve this.
Radical: Primarily concerned with equality, this applies to domestic and family life also.
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Difference: Men and women are fundamentally different from one another, beyond biological differences.
Equal necessitates a desire to be 'like men' - liberation comes through difference, as developed and fulfilled women.
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Sex and Gender:
Sex: biological differences of males and females
Gender: a cultural term referring to the different roles society ascribes to women and men.
Androgyny: The idea that Human Nature is sexless, ones sex is irrelevant to ones social role or political state.
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Such a view accepts that sex differences are biological facts of life but have no further implications.
Intersectionality:
Show how women of different cultures, classes and religions have different experiences of misogyny.
Kimberlé Crenshaw:
- Originated the term in the late 1980s
- Women do not just have a simple gender-bases identity but one which intersects with other factors