Typology of Feminism

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Typology of Feminism

• WS 200, Kathy Edwards

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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 womens
  issues.
• Autonomy, the right to political, social,
  economic, intellectual autonomy.
• Alternatives, and change.

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Types of Feminism

• Liberal Feminism states womens 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.

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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.

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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.
• Womens oppression is difficult to eradicate.
• Women are victims of Violence
• Women are biologically oppressed in pregnancy and
  childbirth.

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Socialist Feminism

• Patriarchy and class oppression are the primary
  causes of womens 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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.