COMS 201 Lecture Notes - Lecture 17: Liberal Feminism, Feminist Theory, Gender Identity
6 May 2016
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Concerned with gender inequality and wanting to change it: most feminist theory attempts to explain the sources of women"s oppression. Attempt to try and understand why and where oppression started: most feminist theory makes assumptions about the origins of the differences between men and women that have caused women"s oppression. Gender identity and sex: most feminist theory is, at some level, activist-it seeks to actively change the lives of women. Five frameworks: liberal feminism: reason vs. emotion. Focus on women"s exclusion from social and political institutions, such as government, politics, and education. Feminists are perceived as emotional and that perception has caused oppression. Argues that women have been associated with being emotional and men as rational and that"s why they"ve been excluded, because they can"t make rational decisions and get emotional: socialist feminism: public vs. Focuses on economic capital as the major source of gender discrimination.
