AQA • FEMINISM

What are the five feminist principles? - Sex and gender Patriarchy The personal is the political Equality feminism and difference feminism Intersectionality What is the definition of sex? - Biological differnces between men and women Assigned a sex at birth What does it mean to be an equality feminist? - Argue women's nature is socially constructed / determined by society and not biology Which feminist branches have debates concerning sex? - Difference feminism vs equality feminism T...

First Wave - Developed in the mid nineteenth century and was based on political and legal parity with men. Franchise - Also known as the right to vote Mary Wollstonecraft - Wrote the seminal first wave feminist piece of writing 'A vindication of the Rights of Woman' Seneca Falls Convention - Held in 1848 and marked the beginning of the women's rights movement in the US Society for Women's Suffrage - Founded in 1867 in London and began the organized movement of women's rights for the...

What is colorism? - differential treatment based on skin tone that generally manifests itself as a preference for lighter colored skin -a prejudice that continues to exist not only among blacks but also among many POC and whites What does it mean to say someone/something is exoticized? - viewed as exotic, foreign, or unusual in an interesting way -women outside the racial norm have been exoticized in 2 ways: grotesquely sexual or sexually inviting and seductively mysterious Objectificatio...

Liberal feminism - -Early first wave feminism (in 19th and early 20th century) was deeply influenced by liberal ideas in general, and Mary Wollstonecraft in particular. With her view being that both men and women are rational and women acting 'childish' in her society was the effect of social expectation placed on to them. -Liberals were the first to offer equal rights to women -Many second wave feminists (1960-70) took their inspiration from liberal ideas. Perhaps the most famous is Bet...

Race -A social construction - Imposing social meanings onto real and/or imagined physiological characteristic (superiority/inferiority) - A way to legitimize the colonial subjugation/subordination of European colonized and continue to deny them access to resources - Racism in engrained in nation building - Seen as static/fixed, inherent and unchangeable - Socially grounded in politics, capitalism, and unequal social relations among different groups of people - Maintained by dominant elit...

Race -A social construction - Imposing social meanings onto real and/or imagined physiological characteristic (superiority/inferiority) - A way to legitimize the colonial subjugation/subordination of European colonized and continue to deny them access to resources - Racism in engrained in nation building - Seen as static/fixed, inherent and unchangeable - Socially grounded in politics, capitalism, and unequal social relations among different groups of people - Maintained by dominant elit...

Human nature for feminists - Women have biological differences but they are irrelevant. essentialism - we must take the differences into account to help women. What did betty Frieden say about imposing expectations on themselves? - women impose the role of children on themselves. The state for socialist feminists - Say that the current state oppresses women (as it does lower classes) with the patriarchy and economically. The state for liberal feminists - The state should help women through...

Briefly outline the 4 waves of feminism - First wave (1850s-1940s): focused on legal and political rights of women, mostly famously via the suffragette movement, culminated in equal suffrage (1928). Second Wave (1960s-80s): focused on the different roles that society expected of men and women. Concepts of patriarchy, sex v. Gender and the personal is the political. Third wave feminism (1990s): concerned with intersectionality, feminism thus far had focused solely on white middle class women...

I hardly believe the fair sex is capable of principles - Kant Though questioning the natural differences between men and women, says in one book that participation enlarges the self, and in another assumes women choose the domestic life - Mill We own what we produce, yet women work hard to produce what they never expect to own. - Nozick Point of political philosophy 'not only to understand the world but to change it' - Marx & Engels Grouped feminist political philosophy into four camps;...

Waves of Feminism - - First Wave Feminism: Emerged in the mid 19th century and concentrated on the campaign for the vote and equal legal rights. In the UK it ended with the extension of the vote to women in 1918 and full suffrage in 1928. - Second Wave Feminism: Held to have started in the 1960s. It focused on the personal, psychological and social aspects of women's oppression ad aimed for liberation rather than reform. - Third Wave Feminism: Has moved feminism away from the aims of educa...