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Liberal feminist wave advocating for equal education, the right to vote, better working conditions, etc. 'There is no female mind' -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 s...

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Liberal feminist wave advocating for equal education, the right to vote, better working conditions, etc.
'There is no female mind' -✔✔✔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 -✔✔✔What was Second Wave
Feminism?



Expanded on radical feminism seeing institutions as further entrenching the patriarchy -✔✔✔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 -✔✔✔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 -✔✔✔What is
difference feminism?



The biological differences men and women assigned at birth -✔✔✔What is sex?



Cultural differences assigned by society towards the different genders according to gender stereotypes
and societal constructs -✔✔✔What is gender?



The belief that sex has no bearing on gender as assigned by society and only men and the patriarchy
benefit from any perceived differences between men and women -✔✔✔What is equality feminism?



The idea that men are seen as superior to women and are the 'first sex' and that women are the 'other'
or 'second sex' -✔✔✔What is otherness?

, Radical feminist idea that sex differences should be eliminated and children created artificially -✔✔✔
What is androgony?



The social construct entrenched within institutions that men are the first sex -✔✔✔What is patriarchy?



An area of patriarchy focused on by liberal feminists who believe that the state and therefore the
patriarchy can be reformed through legal equality and education -✔✔✔What is the public sphere?



Areas of patriarchy beyond the reach of the state focused on by radical feminists. Radical feminists
believe there is no distinction between the public and private sphere and believe 'the personal is the
political' -✔✔✔What is the private sphere?



A post-modernist concept that non-white and working-class women should be equally represented in
the feminist movement -✔✔✔What is intersectionality?



There is a common human nature between men and women but this is stopped by social constraints -✔
✔✔What is a shared feminist view with regard to human nature?



Differences in gender are artificially constructed and reinforced by institutions such as schools so
differences in gender should be tackled through reforms such as education reforms in order to break the
cycle of male superiority over women -✔✔✔What is the liberal feminist view on human nature?



Gender differences are pervasive throughout life and must be destroyed accordingly. This can also be
seen through the creation of a female consciousness on patriarchy -✔✔✔What is the radical feminist
view on human nature?



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 -✔✔✔What is the socialist feminist view on human nature?

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