COMS 201 Lecture Notes - Lecture 15: Radical Feminism, Socialist Feminism, Liberal Feminism
13 Jul 2018
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Five frameworks: liberal feminism: reason vs. emotion. It draws our attention to reason vs. emotion. Focus on power of men and are not available to women. Women have always been associated with emotions and men with logic and sense. This perception has lead women to be excluded from different opportunities. Liberal feminist doesn"t symbolize women as emotional being but it focuses on our social way of thinking as women being emotional and men being logical. It tries to explain, both are equally logical and rational. Most comfortable way of identifying oneself as feminism: socialist feminism: public vs. It focuses on the economic factor as a major source of discrimination. Women have been associated with the inner works(home) and men in the social world and therefore this cause woman to be stuck up the unpaid labor. This explains, private work is being dominated by social work and this causes discrimination.
