WS100 Chapter Notes - Chapter 13: Juliet Mitchell, Class Conflict, Heidi Hartmann
28 Jan 2018
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Second wave of women"s movement (beginning in 1960s)-socialist and radical feminism emerged as alternatives to liberal feminism. Socialist feminism; locates women"s oppression in the structure of capitalism and its interrelationship with patriarchal gender relations. Radical feminism; identifies patriarchal social relations as the primary cause of women"s oppression. Multicultural feminism; criticism of the whiteness of the women"s movement. Postmodernist feminism; emphasizes the socially constituted basis of gender in society. Queer theory; analysis of sexualities that sees sexuality as highly fluid and subject to social definition. Radical feminists argue that dominant institutions are organized through gender, race, and class oppression. Criticize liberal feminists for assuming sexism is a remnant of traditional beliefs/practices. Liberal feminism puts only some women on par with men without transforming conditions of oppression that produce gender, class, and racial inequality. 19th century feminism is characterized as a reform movement whose ideas are rooted in the liberal thought of ppl like john stuart and harriet taylor mill.
