COMS 201 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Louise Adams, Socialist Feminism, Queer Theory
14 Dec 2017
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This article, like most, acknowledges that feminist theory, like feminism, is difficult to define, but it does acknowledge several common features: a concern about and desire to change the subjugated status of women. Acknowledging that women had a subjugated status in society: attempts to explain the sources of women"s oppression, examines the origins of the differences between men and women that have caused women"s oppression. There are biological and social distinctions that have caused oppression of women in the past: is, at some level, activist it seeks to actively change the lives of women. It is not enough to talk about the problem, but to actively change it. Five frameworks: liberal feminism: reason vs. emotion. Focus on women"s inclusion on social and political institutions (government, politics, education the right to vote, the wage gap): socialist feminism: public vs. Private: radical feminism: nature vs. culture, psychoanalytical feminism: subject vs. The roots of the word queer as slang for homosexual, to mean.
