PSYC 3603 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Marxist Feminism, Liberal Feminism, Equal Opportunity

• School: Carleton University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 3603
• Professor: Suzanne Cooper

Document Summary

Formal equality: equal opportunity: women and men should be treated the same, same treatment= same results. Women are disadvantaged in this because they have traditional social roles etc. maternity leave can negatively effect promotion opportunity. If you want real equality you need substantive equality. Liberal feminism: emphasis on equality, legal social and economic, focus on equal opportunities, gender differences are relatively small, advocate for gender- neutrality , quite conservative feminist approach. Cultural feminism: there are differences in men and women so lets value the qualities that women have, focus on gender differences that value women, believe that society should be restructured to emphasise cooperation rather than aggression. Marxist feminism (socialist feminism: focus on class system, oppression of women is just one instance of oppression based on class and rooted in capitalism, over throw the existing economic order and class structure will liberate.