Feminism Test Questions and Answers All Correct
Give four Liberal Feminist theorists and their works - Answer--MARY WOLLSTONECRAFTt - 'Vindication of the Rights of Women' 1972. - Both sexes had an equal capacity for reason therefore women entitled to the same rights as men.
-JS MILL - 'On the su...
Give four Liberal Feminist theorists and their works - Answer--MARY
WOLLSTONECRAFTt - 'Vindication of the Rights of Women' 1972. - Both sexes had an
equal capacity for reason therefore women entitled to the same rights as men.
-JS MILL - 'On the subjugation of women' 1869. - Society should be organised on the
basis of reason.
-BETTY FRIEDAN - The Feminine Mystique
-NAOMI WOLFE - 'The Beauty Myth' 1992
Explain Socialist Feminists Key Concepts. - Answer--Philosophical basis of economic
class where patriarchy is rooted in the economic structure of society.
-Orthodox Marxists: Private class discrimination over sex discrimination. Women's
discrimination of secondary importance, by-product of capitalism.
-Modern socialists - 'Dual systems theory'.
Explain the origin & the extent of the oppression of Socialist Feminism - Answer-1.
Based on Orthodox communists belief in economic determinism, a strict interpretation of
the pre-dominance of economic factors in Marxist theory.
2. Womens liberation should be seperate to but part of the wider struggle by the working
classes.
3. Orthodox communists criticsied women who wished to form seperate organisations.
Explain the goals of Socialist Feminism - Answer-1. Equal Classless society,
2. Achieve womens emancipation through social and economic restructuring.
3. End the use and abuse of cheap women labour.
4. Awaken political consciousness.
Explain the tactics of Socialist Feminism - Answer--Radical women focus on womens
leadership as decisive to social change and train women to take their place at the
forefront of the struggle.
-Workers liberty demand childcare, welfare state.
-General struggle against capitalism.
Give four socialist theorists and their works. - Answer--ENGELS - 'The origin of the
family, private property and the state' 1884.
-KOLLONTAI (first wave) - Only women member of Lenin's central committee.
-PANKHURST- 1882 - 1960 - suffrage movement
-ROWBOTHAM - 'Women's liberation and New Politics'. Socialist theory need to
consider oppression culturally.
, Outline KATE MILLET's (radical) key concepts - Answer--Sexual oppression is the most
fundamental feature of society, gender is the social cleavage and the most politically
significant, more important than social class.
-Patriarchy is all pervasive, systematic, institutionalised process of gender oppression in
public and private.
Explain the origin & the extent of the oppression of MILLET's (Radical feminism) -
Answer--Millett agreed with Friedan that the roots of patriarchy lie in the traditional
structure of the family.
-Patriarchy had invaded the whole of human culture and society, existing in politics,
business and media.
Explain the goals of MILLET (Radical feminism) - Answer--Create an androgynous
society in which there would be no significant gender differences between men and
women.
-Male / female relations could resume on basis of true equality.
Explain the tactics of MILLET (Radical feminism) - Answer--Women form their own
consciousness which should be completely seperate from men.
-Must have no relations with men and must form own communities like anarchist
communes of 1960's and 1970's.
Outline FIRESTONE's (radical) key concepts - Answer--Based on an androgynous view
of human nature, there is no connection between biological differences and gender.
-Its therefore nature of our society which causes patriarchy.
Explain the origin & the extent of the oppression of FIRESTONE's (Radical feminism) -
Answer--Alienation of women = solely the result of sexual oppression. -The oppression
of women by men emanated from biological differences and the assumption that male
sexual characteristics were superior.
Explain the goals of FIRESTONE (Radical feminism) - Answer--Following her quasi-
Marxist analysis foresaw emergence of a sexless society where no individual could
suffer inferiority on grounds of biology.
Explain the tactics of FIRESTONE (Radical feminism) - Answer--The oppressed sex
would rise up, the catalyst would be technology when women could reproduce without
men.
What are the two basic beliefs of feminism shared by all feminists? - Answer-1.) Women
are disadvantaged because of their sexual identity
2.) This disadvantage can and should be overthrown
What is 1st Wave Feminism? - Answer-1st Wave - The aim was to give women the
same legal / political rights, and was most prominent in the US and the UK.
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