WS101 Chapter Notes - Chapter 6: Marxist Feminism, Socialist Feminism, Feminist Theory
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Remember that context is really central to understanding these different feminist approaches. So we might take a chronological view and go back to the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries when the first feminists really started to emerge. So, liberal feminists are really interested in the notion of patriarchy and uncovering how that system served to oppress women in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. And i would say really, we"ve not given up the issue of patriarchy; that"s still an important institutionalized system that we know exists in our contemporary culture. But in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries it really was seen as the driving force by feminists for why they weren"t able to participate in the public sphere. Also in this time period we start to see that some theorists begin to really connect the issues of patriarchy with another system of oppression: capitalism.
