Feminism

• Liberal Feminism


  • Concerned with campaigning against sexual discrimination
  • Supporting equal rights and opportunities
• Marxist Feminism


  • Cause of oppression is capitalism, not men
  • Argue women's oppression is unpaid domestic labour
  • Reproducing labour force through serializing next generation of workers
  • Women absorb anger and are a reserve cheap labour for capitalism
• Radical Feminism


  • Men are the enemy
  • Oppose all other forms of feminism that assume the family and marriage are institutions in patriarchal society
  • Only way to abolish oppression is by abolishing the family
• Difference Feminism


  • All societies are founded on patriarchy
  • Not possible to generalise women's experiences
  • Women have many different life experiences (e.g. lesbian vs heterosexual, black vs white, middle vs working class)
• Black feminists argue that white feminists neglect the experience of racial oppression faced by black women
• Others dispute that women share many of the same experiences when compared with men, such as greater risk of domestic violence and low pay
• Black families are a positive source of support and resistance against oppression, according to some
• Others argue that this view of black families is disputed