WGS 110 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Carolyn Merchant, Rachel Carson, Phyllis Schlafly
8 Apr 2016
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Diference feminism- valorized biological diference and essenialized motherhood. Charlote gilman (1989) virginia woolf (1929) focused on economic independence of women as they are a superior self separate feminist consciousness. Psychological diferences (coral gilligan, phyllis chesler) gynocentrism= vagina haing (mary daly) Ani porn feminism- misogynist images in pornography were harmful to women and girls (andrea dworkin, catharine mackinnon, susan brownmiller) Marxist: uses economic theory (economic life + capitalism) to understand gender oppression. Socialist: oppression is rooted in producion (class) and reproducion (gender) and kept in place by capitalist patriarchal insituions and socieies. Focus: wages, working condiions, work hours, labor of children, and collecive acion for a worker run state socialism. Emancipaion of women in the family, socializaion of household work, women"s entry into the paid labor force and unions. Dismissed the idea of a common oppression among women. Feminist solidarity must be built on the basis of individual transformaion and collecive acion to end all forms of sexism and sexist oppression.
