Feminism
Feminism
Feminist theory are the set of beliefs and values (ideology) that emerge from and underpin the feminist movement e.g. theories about the origins of inequality.
Feminist theory are the set of beliefs and values (ideology) that emerge from and underpin the feminist movement e.g. theories about the origins of inequality.
Patriarchy is a social system in which men dominate. Women are systematically disadvantage.
- In other words... we live in hierarchical ordered society where men are invariably more dominant, with power and status skewed in the favour of men.
- Argues that equality can be brought about through legal reform.
- They advocate attempting to change the existing system ‘from within’ – lobbying and protesting to bring about change.
- Liberal feminism tends to see the problem in terms of male prejudice against women, embodied in the law or expressed in the exclusion of women from particular areas of life.
Post feminism
- Post-feminism encourages consumerism and celebrates the idea of a powerful woman who no longer needs to be part of a movement to establish her rights and equality to men.
- Post-feminists argue that women should be able to express themselves however they want and in a variety of different ways.
- Post-feminism is about having fun with consumerism and popular culture and raising an awareness of the fact that all forms of femininity are a social construct.
Natasha Walter (1999:1) claims that ‘Everywhere you look, you see individual women who are freer and more powerful than women have ever been before’
Sex means the biological differences between men and women.
Gender the state of being male or female.
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