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Title: Feminism


1
Feminism
  • As theory and practice

2
Patriarchy (95)
  • System of male dominance

3
Social construction of woman
  • Woman as inferior, flawed man.
  • Seductress, temptress, cause of original sin.
  • Only good woman is an obedient woman.

4
Autonomy and Emancipation
  • Virginia Woolf, A Room of Ones Own.
  • Women should be able to participate, to be and to
    become themselves.

5
Simone de Beauvoir
  • Argued that women have been defined purely in
    relation to men and not as autonomous beings.
  • Her goal was the right of women to express
    themselves as individuals.

6
Woman as peaceful
  • One aspect of socialization
  • Reclaiming power

7
The personal is political (112-113)
  • In 2002-2003, there were an average of 223,280
    victims of rape, attempted rape or sexual
    assault.
  • Only about 40 of rapes sexual assaults were
    reported to law enforcement in 2003.
  • Since 1993, rape/sexual assault has fallen by
    over 65.
  • Every two and a half minutes, somewhere in
    America, someone is sexually assaulted.
  • --source http//www.rainn.org/statistics/

8
Murder
  • Every day four women die in this country as a
    result of domestic violence
  • the most conservative estimates indicate two to
    four million women of all races and classes are
    battered each year
  • --source http//www.now.org/issues/violence/stats
    .html

9
The public/private myth (112-113)
  • Feminists argue that the separation of public and
    private perpetuates inequality of women.
  • Housework is one example.

10
Women in leadership
  • Women have the vote but do they have power?
  • Women priests?
  • Women politicians?
  • 16 women in the Senate (33 women senators have
    been elected)
  • 70 women in the House

11
Descriptive representation
  • Seeing a woman in office will inspire more women
    to run for office.

12
The politics of language (115-116)
  • Political correct
  • The B!_at_

13
Reform or Liberal Feminism (117)
  • Focus on Rights
  • The equal rights amendment
  • On March 27, 2007 House and Senate Democrats
    reintroduced the measure under a new name the
    Womens Equality Amendment.
  • What are the 15 states that have not ratified the
    ERA?The 15 states that have not ratified the ERA
    are Alabama, Arizona, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia,
    Illinois, Louisiana, Mississippi, Missouri,
    Nevada, North Carolina, Oklahoma, South Carolina,
    Utah, and Virginia.

14
Marxist feminism
  • Critique based upon the patriarchal familys role
    in supporting capitalism.

15
Socialist Feminism
  • Similar to other forms of feminism but emphasize
    the democratic, egalitarian aspects of socialism.

16
Integrative Feminism
  • Focus on equality but not sameness

17
Separatist or Radical Feminism
  • Takes Woolfs argument to the extreme.
  • Women will only be free when they completely
    escape the patriarchal world.
  • For an interesting novel read Herland.

18
Intersectionality-race/class/gender
  • bell hooks Feminist Theory from margin to center
  • Unity of oppression
  • Advocating feminism

19
Third World Feminism
  • Poverty vs. Patriarchy

20
Reproductive Rights
  • Transforming society to allow full participation
    by women.
  • The right to choose is about more than a woman's
    right to safe, legal abortion. Freedom of choice
    encompasses preventing unintended pregnancy
    through sex education and improved access to
    birth control, defending a woman's right to bear
    healthy children, defending the independence of
    our nation's courts, and addressing the
    inequities in reproductive health care.
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