SOCI 270 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Liberal Feminism, Heterosexism, Sex Segregation
12 Jun 2016
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You can think of it as akin to the first wave feminism. John locke = famous liberal: argued that every man has a natural right to life liberty, property, and that gov"t shouldn"t be able to regulate his rights. Liberal feminism takes these ideas and applies them to women: at this time, women were thought to be irrational, ruled by emotion, incapable of making decisions in the public sphere. One of the chief liberal feminists was mary wolstoncraft - she took john locke"s arguments and applied them to women in her book. Primary goal is gender equality in the public sphere won through legal changes o. Equal access to education, money, job, sex segregation, working conditions . Two themes: opposition to patriarchal paternalistic laws: these restrict women"s options on the grounds that such limits are in women"s interest. Laws might limit women"s employment options on the grounds that certain jobs are not in a woman"s interest.
