POLI 201 Lecture Notes - Adversarial System, Feminist Legal Studies, Critical Legal Studies
2 Mar 2014
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1: types of feminism, case study: sexual assault trials. Society is often structures unequally, with men oppressing, exploiting or dominating women. Collectivism: society can be viewed in collectivist terms based on gender (male and female). (other social distinctions can also be important- economic, ethnicity, race, etc. ) Inequality: the relations between these gender groups is highly unequal (distribution of goods and/or relations of power) Like other ideologies, feminism is a highly complex system of thought with different variants. Understand the notion of inequality, its causes, and its solutions in many different ways. Feminism values are often incorporated into other types of ideologies. Marxist feminism (economic equality for women) (oppression: economic. Radical feminism (social and psychological freedom for women) slavery of women) (oppression: An important focus of feminist analysis has been the law (feminist critical legal studies. ) Concern that the law enforces unjust treatment of women (inequality before the law, paternalism, economic slavery, patriarchy)
