AQA • FEMINISM

Liberal feminism - to create a world in which people are judged for their individual characteristics without regard to sex. - Liberal feminists do tend to work through the system more than radfems or marxfems; - liberal feminists believe that many social problems can be meaningfully addressed through the government, which will gradually bring about social change - libfems are the most likely feminists to form groups like NOW and the Feminist Majority, groups which try to advance a wide ran...

What do most feminists believe about the family? -They believe that the family oppresses women and keeps men in power What do feminists believe about society? -They believe it is patriarchal Define patriarchy -Male dominated unit or society What are the three types of feminism? What do they aim to do? -Liberal, radical and marxist. They aim to challenge patriarchy in different ways. What is the role of feminism as an element of social knowledge? -Highlights effects of patriarchy on gender...

Feminism - The belief in the social, political, and economic equality of the sexes and the social movements organized around that belief. Feminist Movement - Designed to consider gender as a way society organizes social relations, generally resulting in inequality between the sexes. Sex - An individual's membership in one of two biologically distinct categories- male or female. Gender - The physical, behavioral, and personality traits that a group considers normal for its male and female ...

Feminists -are people who try to acknowledge social inequality based on gender and stop it from continuing; points out that in most cultures throughout history men have received more opportunities than women gender ideology -it is concerned with normative beliefs about proper roles for and fundamental natures of women and men in human societies. The distinction between sex and gender is central to the concept of it gender inequality -refers to unequal treatment or perceptions of individual...

Feminism -the belief that women should possess the same political and economic rights as men Equal Pay Act -made it illegal for employers to pay female workers less than men for the same job Betty Friedan -American Feminist, writer of The Feminine Mystique, cofounded NOW National Organization of Women -Feminist political group formed in 1967 to promote legislative change. Lobbied for the Equal Right Amendment (and failed). Gloria Steinem -founder and original publisher of Ms. magazine, and...

First published Fri Sep 3, 2004; substantive revision Mon Aug 21, 2017 Feminist philosophy of language has come a long way in a very short time period. Initially, most work in the area was critical, calling for changes either to language itself or to philosophy of language. More recently, however, the dynamic has changed, with the advent of several major positive research programmes within philosophy of language. In this entry, we first discuss the critiques that constitute the first phase ...

First published Tue May 19, 2009; substantive revision Tue Oct 24, 2017 Feminist philosophy of law identifies the pervasive influence of patriarchy and masculinist norms on legal structures and demonstrates their effects on the material conditions of women and girls and those who may not conform to cisgender norms. It also considers problems at the intersection of sexuality and law and develops reforms to correct gender injustice, exploitation, or restriction. To these ends, feminist philos...

What is feminist theory? - a wide ranging system of ideas about social life and human experiences developed from a woman centered perspective. [woman centered because it examines the situations and experiences of women, tried to describe the social world from the standpoint of women] First wave feminism - comte coined the term sociology, marx weber and durkheim dominated sociology at this time but there were women doing feminist work at this time also, trying to establish a feminist perspec...

Feminism - 1. The movement for social, political, and economic equality of women and men 2. Feminism means that women have the right to enough information to make informed choices about their lives 3. Believe that changes made to advance gender equality will result in benefits to both women and men Major Strains of Feminism 1. Liberal - Primary source of women's oppression is gender role socialization. Men's social roles afforded more social status and power which leads to political, soc...

first-wave feminism - The feminist movement during the nineteenth and early twentieth century focused on de jure (officially mandated) inequalities, primarily on gaining women's suffrage. second-wave feminism - The feminist movement starting in the 1960s, particularly in America, where women campaigned for social and economic rights in addition to the more basic rights they had won during first-wave. third-wave feminism - Refers to the 1990s and beyond and the individual empowerment of wo...