WS102 Lecture Notes - Radical Feminism, Male Privilege, Marxist Feminism

• School: University of Waterloo
• Department: Women's Studies
• Course: WS102
• Professor: Tina Davidson

Document Summary

Women"s oppression rooted in the structures (economic, geographical, historical, social, educational, emotional) of a given society, neighborhood, family. Explanation for women"s oppression may be biological, psychological, social, historical. Oppression rooted from a membership in a specific category. Men experience restrictions too, but not things that have political, economic, socio-cultural or national value. Different feminist theories approach the question of the roots of women"s oppression from different angles. Liberal feminists: women"s oppression is rooted in their lack of equal civil rights, equal political representation, and equal opportunities of education and employment. Marxist feminists: capitalism as a male-dominated economic system which relies on an hence is responsible for maintaining women"s oppression. Radical feminism concentrates it"s analysis of women"s oppression on the following ideas: overlooked as part of the social order. kinds of oppression: that understanding women"s oppression provides the conceptual key to all other. Double blind: root of oppression is restricted mobility.