Feminism Study guides, Class notes & Summaries

SECTION 1: Overview of feminism - Name the strands Briefly describe each State the approximate wave - - LIBERAL feminism - supporting reform (1st wave). - RADICAL feminism - supporting revolution (2nd and 3rd wave). - SOCIALIST feminism - the most extreme and are Marxists (2nd wave) - POSTMODERN feminism (3rd wave). The main strands are liberal and radical. Socialist and postmodern are also strands to use where you can. So, mainly contrast liberal and radical. Include socialist and p...

Feminism notes 5 key thinkers beliefs simplified Strands of feminism Liberal feminist Social feminist Intersectional/post modern feminism Impacts of: human nature, economy, state, society Core beliefs: personal is political, sex and gender, patriarchy, equality and difference, intersectional

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...

English Literature - works for all exam boards. The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood In-depth Context Includes: • Reaganism: Ronald Reagan’s presidency and the Conservative religious right • The Moral Majority – what did this seek to push back against? (1960s and 1970s advances in what?) • The Equal Rights Amendment • Roe vs Wade • Phyllis Schlafly and the 1980s feminist backlash • Second wave feminism • Rachel Carson and ‘The Silent Spring’ 1962 • Pu...

Notes on feminism and philosophy module including notes on feminism, sex and gender, social constructionism, what is a woman, gender realism/essentialism, trans inclusivity, intersectionality, epistemic privilege, ignorance and oppression, sexual liberation and problematic desires

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...

Core ideas and principles of feminism and how they relate to human nature, the state, society and the economy: • sex and gender – sex refers to biological differences between men • patriarchy • the personal is political • equality feminism and difference feminism • intersectionality

Origins and developments -- Feminist ideas can be traced back to the ancient civilisations of Greece and China - Christine De Pisan's Book of the City of Ladies published in Italy (1405) foreshadowed many ideas of modern feminism such as advocating women's rights to education - The first text of modern feminism is Mary Wollstonecraft's the Vindication of the Rights of Women (1792) - By the mid 19th C the women's movement acquired a central focus which was the right to vote Origins and...

What are the core ideas and principles? - -Most of these core ideas and principles are associated with the second wave radical feminism. -Radical feminism introduced new ideas and concepts for discussing and challenging the role of women in society. -Although there has been discussion before it has mostly been arranged around the language of liberalism or socialism. 5 Key ideas - -Sex and gender. -Patriarchy. -The personal is political. -Equality and difference feminism. -Intersectiona...