PS 3250 Chapter 12: Chapter Twelve Book Notes

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Feminism is a set of theories and strategies for social change that takes gender as its central focus in attempting to understand social institutions, processes, and relationships. It is both a social movement and a worldview. Feminist jurisprudence is the practice of examining and evaluating the law from a feminist perspective. Patriarchy occupies the same despised place among feminists scholars that capitalism occupies among marxists. Feminists believe that law is a mirror of patriarchal society and that it has been used to devalue and disenfranchise women. Reformist feminists tend to be liberals who want to retain the current legal system and reconfigure it so that it recognizes women as equal to males. Radical feminists see the present system as so corrupted by patriarchy that it must be abandoned and replaced with one free of biases. Misogyny is the hatred, devaluation, and ridicule of women, an ideology that justifies and maintains men"s subordination of women.

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