SOSC 1350 Study Guide - Quiz Guide: Marxist Feminism, Post-Structuralism, Cultural Feminism
12 Mar 2018
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Key concepts #1: poststructuralist feminism and official version of law. Poststructuralist feminism emphasizes the nature of all identities specifically the social construction of gendered subjectivities. Carol smart states this type of feminism as gendering strategy. The major implications of this feminism include when law brings gendered subjectivities into being, by creating the identities which we become tied. A significant contribution of this feminism was to establish that there is no single category to identify woman and man. It identifies the intersectionality of ethnicity, class, race and sex. The novel by a. s. byatt, the heroine of possession explains that we question everything in this world except the centrality of sexuality. Due to the arrival of post structuralism, feminism was seen emerging as an electric theory and gave rise to the developing theories like marxist feminism, liberal and cultural feminism. Essentialism is the belief that every entity is given set of attributes that are necessary to one"s existence.
