Sociology 2240E Study Guide - Final Guide: Liberal Feminism, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Anna J. Cooper
22 Mar 2015
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Feminist theory is a generalized, wide-ranging system of ideas about social life and human experience developed from a woman-centered perspective. It is woman-centered in two ways: the starting point of all its investigations is the situations and experiences, seeks to describe and critically evaluate the world from the distinctive of women in society vantage points of women. Women"s location in, and experience of, most situations is different from those of men in the situation. Women"s location in most situations is not only different but also less privileged than or unequal to that of men. Women are oppressed, not just different from or unequal to, but actively restrained, subordinated, molded and used and abused by men. Women"s experiences of difference, inequality, and oppression vary by their social location within capitalism, patriarchy, and racism. Theories of gender difference , describe, explain, and trace implications of ways men and women are or are not the same in behaviour and experience.
