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Typology of Feminism

Typology of Feminism. WS 200, Kathy Edwards. Approaches to Studying Women: Feminism:. Establish Women as Fully human, equal to men. Establish Women with equal pay to that of men. Include Women in history, their lives, voices, knowledge. Raise consciousness and awareness of women’s issues.

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Typology of Feminism

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  1. Typology of Feminism WS 200, Kathy Edwards

  2. Approaches to Studying Women: Feminism: • Establish Women as Fully human, equal to men. • Establish Women with equal pay to that of men. • Include Women in history, their lives, voices, knowledge. • Raise consciousness and awareness of women’s issues. • Autonomy, the right to political, social, economic, intellectual autonomy. • Alternatives, and change.

  3. Types of Feminism • Liberal Feminism: states women’s oppression is rooted in lack of opportunity and education. Demand for equal access, economic power and education. The key is education, and equal economic access and power.

  4. Marxist Feminism • The oppression of women is due to capitalism and private property ownership. Women are cheap labor and receive low wages or work for free in the home or as volunteers.

  5. Radical Feminist • Patriarchy, racism, able-bodied, heterosexism, classism are oppressive to women. These must change before society will change. • Women were the first oppressed people. • Women are oppressed in all societies. • Women’s oppression is difficult to eradicate. • Women are victims of Violence • Women are biologically oppressed in pregnancy and childbirth.

  6. Socialist Feminism • Patriarchy and class oppression are the primary causes of women’s subordination., • The class structure of law and private property. • The family system of birth control and socialization of women which includes sexuality. • The sexual division of labor.

  7. Cultural Feminism: • Utopian Theory – we must separate ourselves from men, embrace the feminine ideal. • Inclusive of kinship systems, family, love, compassion, caring, sharing, cooperation, compromise. • Perceptions and Moral development woman centered and woman developed.

  8. Post structuralism Feminism • The French Feminists from 1950 to present. • Individual solutions are necessary. • Women cannot escape being women. • Women must work. • Women must become educated. • Women must redefine the self as in process, not defined by society.

  9. Women of Color and Colonialism RACE/ETHNICITY: women of color and various ethnic origins face barriers that must be overcome. The world is different for them, and they are invisible and excluded from the white/male world totally.

  10. Women of Color and Colonialism COLONIALIZATION: involuntary entry and subordination of a racial or ethnic group by the dominant group which includes destruction of their culture and the privilege of the dominant groups with economic and legal barriers to the colonized group.

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