POLS 3255 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Marxist Feminism, Radical Feminism, Liberal Feminism
22 Sep 2016
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There are a number of phases that feminism has gone through regards to human rights. There is no such thing as a single feminist perspective, but rather, several different feminists. Contemporary liberal feminism also has the roots in the nineteenth-century women"s suffrage movement. Much contemporary feminist theory defines itself in reaction against liberal feminism. Liberal feminists are generally oblivious to the workings of class, ignore the private sphere, and have a white middle class bias. Socialist and marxist feminists from the 1960s analyzed the interconnections between the public sphere of capitalist and state relations and the private sphere of the family and household. These feminist argued that the interconnections between public and private worlds were pivotal. Radical feminists never disputed the analysis of social and marxist feminists concerning the fundamentally exploitive nature of capitalist relations. However, additionally they argued that, buried deep in human society are the relations of domination and subordination between the sexes.
