AQA • FEMINISM

What is the context within which feminist theory developed? -The first wave of feminist theory developed in the 1840s, the second wave of feminist theory developed in the 1960s, and the third wave of feminist theory is developing right now What are some of the basic research questions of feminist theory? -How can we achieve equality for women? How are gender role expectations created, and how are they passed down, generation to generation? How might perceptions of gender lead to discriminat...

What are the basic questions of feminism? What is explored within each one? -1. And what about the women?/Where are women are the women in any situated being investigated?/How do they experience the situation? Answer: Women are present in most social situations (Academic, legislative, public, social actors), when they are not it is due to deliberate action to exclude them. Women's role are present but are different, less privileged, and subordinate to roles of men. Invisibility=Inequality ...

Principles -- The personal is political - Personal & social identities are interdependent - Commitment to social change - Counseling relationship is egalitarian - Women & girls experiences and ways of knowing are honored - Definitions of distress & "mental illness" are reformulated - There is an integrated analysis of oppression Key Concepts -- Problems are viewed in a sociopolitcal & cultural context - Acknowledging psychological oppression imposed through sociopolitical status of wom...

feminism -a MOVEMENT to end sexism, sexist exploitation, and oppression movement -a group of people acting with some degree of organization and continuity outside of institutional channels for the purpose of promoting change in the group, society, or the world sexism -attitudes, actions, and institutional practices that lower women because of their gender oppression -to be caught among forces and barriers that jointly restrain, restrict, or prevent motion or mobility (i.e. birdcage example)...

New Social Movements --emerged in the 1960s -challenged traditional political allegiances of .Western liberal politics .Worker-based movements (labor unions) .State socialism (Western and Eastern Europe) .broad-based and identity-based Broad-Based Movements -.Civil rights movements .Anti-Vietnam War activism .Environmental movement .Free speech on campus movement Identity-based Movements --Black Power Movement -American Indian Movement -Chicano/a Movement (La Raza) -Feminist Movemen...

Sex - biological constitution as female or male gender - our cultural programming as feminine or masculine. varies within cultures "On ne nait pas femme, on le devient" Simone De Bouvet - One is not born a woman one becomes one Homophobia: - Fear of, aversion to, or discrimination against, homosexuals Hetrosexalist - presumption that everyone is heterosexual, and naturally superior Nature vs Nurture - extent to which particular aspects of behavior are a product of either inherited (i.e...

first wave of feminism - 19th and early 20th century suffrage movement second wave of feminism - 60s-70s women's liberation movement third wave of feminism - 80s-present mary wollstonecraft - british political philosopher; published first feminist manifesto entitled "the vindication of the rights of women" why were people opposed to the suffrage movement - anti suffragists feared that this movement would impact the established gender roles in a negative way, also believed that women wer...

What is Islamic Feminist Discourse? -- Derived from the Qu'ran - Advocates gender equality (which is affirmed by the Qu'ran + prevented/subverted by patriarchal ideas & practices) - The fiqh in 9th Classic 9th century was saturated with patriarchal ideas which impacted the Sharia (which today gives women less rights than men) Liberal Feminism -- Women's subordination is because they aren't integrated with the public sphere -believe that they need to integrate women into the courts and...

Patriarchal - describes a society or culture dominated by men. Other - denotes "different from" and not as important as the privileged term of a binary. I.e. women, the colonized. Sexual Politics - posits that economic inequality and ideological indoctrination have been the chief causes of women's oppression. Also denotes distinctions between sex and gender. Gynocriticism - defines the process of constructing "a female framework for the analysis of women's literature to develop new mo...

What are the key features of liberal feminism? - Individualism, reform, choice and nature, and equal rights What is individualism? - A liberal belief that every individual is of equal moral worth and therefore we can only judge individuals on rational grounds Who are the key thinkers behind Individualism and liberal feminism - JS Mill, Mary Wollstonecraft What are liberal feminists ideas on reform - They seek to open up public life to equal opportunities and competition but they don't wa...