WS100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Socialist Feminism, Radical Feminism, Trans Woman
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Women subordinate to male domination (social categories) Reason for women"s oppression is because we"re living a patriarchy. Breaking down barriers not only in a patriarchal society but bringing down patriarchy as a whole. Looks at patriarchy and realizes until it is abolished we will not be free of oppression. Violence against women is a symptom of underlying patriarchal relations. Get rid of porn, should be criminalized. Being too outspoken and being seen as extreme. Victimizing women who chose to live their lives in a way that i seen as negative by the movement. Women are inherently more caring and loving. Transphobic - trans women aren"t real women and don"t deserve to be apart of the women"s movement. The oppression of women began with the notions of owning private property. Capitalism creates classes where some people own other things (land, production) Capitalism socialist relations opress men and women. All people are exploited by their wage for labour.
