SOC101 Chapter Notes - Chapter 9: Liberal Feminism, Feminist Theory, Equal Pay For Equal Work
14 Dec 2015
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Sex: refers to the biological division into male and female : refers to anatomical or biological characteristics of women and men. 4 different strains of feminist theory and how each one approaches the study of gender: feminist liberalism, feminist essentialism, feminist socialism, feminist postmodernism. Feminist liberalism (or liberal feminism): identifies women as a class. Pay equity: the guarantee that women in traditionally female- Only white middle-class women benefit its less successful in the interests of women who differ in terms of class, ethnicity, sexual orientation, and nationality. Feminist essentialism (or essentialist feminism): looks at differences between the way women and men think, and argues for equality or female superiority- in that difference. Feminist socialism (or socialist feminists): revise their marxism so as to account for gender, something that marx ignored. They want sexuality and gender relations included in analyses of society.
