WGS101H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Socialist Feminism, Mary Wollstonecraft, Marxist Feminism
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Science was used as a justification to exclude women (have small brains, erotic when on their period), used to keep them out of education. Liberal feminism: argued that women are equally capable of rational thought, should be included in all levels of society, equality meant with men but not with all men or women. Liberty & freedom assumed that all men should be able to equally free to pursue these ideologies, women weren"t seen as persons but as property of husband, not given citizenship. Mary wollstonecraft argues about women"s rights, equality & education, debunking myths about women"s dependence on men (laying out a map for activism) Marxist feminism: associated with ussr & china, emphasizes the common economic good of society, public ownership of the means of production, state directed political & economic development. It involved political ec philosophies, was a path to non-capitalist society. Socialist feminism: patriarchy & capitalism works together to women"s oppression, they"re interdependent, linking 2 sys.
