SA 150 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Gender Identity, Radical Feminism, Liberal Feminism

• School: Simon Fraser University
• Department: Sociology and Anthropology
• Course: SA 150
• Professor: Suzanna Crage

Document Summary

Gender idenity: psychological and cultural self-ideniied category. Liberal feminism: men and women are equal; works w/ societal laws. Radical feminism: gender is a social construct and social insituions are made to support men instead of women: transform society; makes gender irst priority in poliical and leadership movement, but ignores race diferences (white feminism vs. black feminism) Cultural feminism: women are gentler and kinder, more humane female atributes should be more appreciated: build women/feminine-friendly culture, more women in power = more feminine-friendly culture, value feminine professions more (ex. Eco-feminism: patriarchy/hierarchical society causes many problems; focuses on treatment of environment, resources, and women need to step our of power and control: change patriarchical culture to save ppl and earth. Postcolonial/third-world feminism: western feminism doesn"t work in non-western, developing world need to understand racism and colonialism to understand women"s issues: re-evaluate colonial power relaions; examin race, class, global, and gender inequaliies.