Feminism - A level Politics Questions and Answers Graded A+
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Feminism - A Level Politics
Feminism - A level Politics Questions and Answers Graded A+
The inferior role of women as a gender is due to capitalism where women have become an oppressed class. This can be solved either through the abolition of capitalism or radical modification to stop women being treated as second-class lab...
Feminism - A level Politics Questions
and Answers Graded A+
The inferior role of women as a gender is due to capitalism where women have become
an oppressed class. This can be solved either through the abolition of capitalism or
radical modification to stop women being treated as second-class labour - Answer-What
is the socialist feminist view on human nature?
The state can be reformed through legislation such as constitutional and legal reforms
and giving women the vote - Answer-What is the liberal feminist view on the state?
Reforms do not address the fundamental issues of the state such as issues of
discrimination, exploitation and inequality - Answer-What is the radical feminist view on
the state?
Society is deeply patriarchal in nature and must be driven out - Answer-What is a
shared view of society by feminists?
Reform of society should take place as patriarchy is a characteristic of society but not
necessarily fundamental - Answer-What is the liberal feminist view of society?
Patriarchy is the key fundamental of society and so must be removed for women to be
emancipated. This can be done through a full-scale attack on cultural values in society
or through the creation of a female counter-culture - Answer-What is the radical feminist
view of society?
Capitalism is the key fundamental of society which drives patriarchy - Answer-What is
the socialist feminist view of society?
Patriarchy is still a key fundamental of society but it does not apply equally to all women
as there are other identities also undermined by society such as class and race -
Answer-What is the post-modernist feminist view of society?
Women's labour is worth less than men's labour as it is often treated as a second-class
form of labour leading to a pay gap and a lack of equality of opportunity - Answer-What
is the shared view of the economy by feminists?
Reforms can create economic equality such as eliminating the pay gap and creating
equality of opportunity - Answer-What is the liberal feminist view on the economy?
, Women created a reserve army of labour of cheap labour so the destruction of
capitalism will see women become equal to men - Answer-What is the socialist feminist
view on the economy?
Accepting that men are different than women and these different characteristics for
women are useful for society and can be superior to male characteristics - Answer-What
is cultural feminism?
Liberal Feminist. Patriarchy stopped the liberation of women as it was cultural in nature
creating 'the problem with no name' - Answer-What are Betty Friedan's feminist beliefs?
Gender differences are created by society which leads to the idea that women are the
Other - Answer-What are Simone de Beauvoir's beliefs on human nature?
Social constraints do not affect just women from achieving true freedom and self-
realisation but everyone. The nuclear family should be destroyed - Answer-What are
Simone de Beauvoir's beliefs on society?
The state reinforces a culture that prevents women from expressing true freedom and
identity - Answer-What are Simone de Beauvoir's beliefs on the state?
Liberal feminist wave advocating for equal education, the right to vote, better working
conditions, etc. 'There is no female mind' - Answer-What was First Wave Feminism?
Liberal feminist wave with some radical and socialist feminism. More based around
need to destroy patriarchy to obtain equality with some advocating a cultural revolution -
Answer-What was Second Wave Feminism?
Expanded on radical feminism seeing institutions as further entrenching the patriarchy -
Answer-What was Third Wave feminism?
Based on intersectional feminism such that it has the interests of non-white and working
class women as well as middle class white women - Answer-What is Fourth Wave
Feminism?
The belief that women are biologically different from men (essentialism) and so women
should create a superior form of culture away from men. Liberal feminists largely see
this as defeatist - Answer-What is difference feminism?
The biological differences men and women assigned at birth - Answer-What is sex?
Cultural differences assigned by society towards the different genders according to
gender stereotypes and societal constructs - Answer-What is gender?
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