Feminist Key thinkers

• Kate Millet: sexual politics (1970)
• Kate Millet believed the personal was political and that the patriarchal power structure must be overthrown. the revolution must happen in minds, workplaces and homes.
• Kate Millet: oppression is entrenched with new generations inducted into their roles. Sex is distinct from gender
• Kate Millet: Male power is underestimated and institutions of politics and economics are still regarded as male.
• Kate Millet: political reform has failed women as they are still judged in tasks, submissive in marriage and denied economic opportunities
• Charlotte Perkins Gilman. the yellow wallpaper 1892 showed the consequence of male power as a housewife deteriorates due to her husbands control.
• Perkins Gilman: socio economic relationship between men and women entrenched inequality as it left women oppressed by expectation to perform domestic tasks. economic independence is therefore necessary.
• Perkins Gilmam: children should be cared for in communal nurseries and women should be distanced from childcare. economic equality only viable if exploitative nature of capitalism is overthrown.
• Sheila Rowbotham: equality can only be achieved through a social revolution. Liberal feminism does little to address oppression of the housewife.

  capitalism exploits women more than men as women are tasked with providing domestically swell.
• Rowbotham: employers should provide services to care for children and easier part time work or choice of hours suiting women.

  Home is a prison as women are phycologically and economically reliant on men.
• Rowbotham: there should be a temperate exclusion of men to allow women to gain confidence.

  the revolution requires a revolution in male thinking as well.
• Simone de Beauvoir: the second sex (1949)

  supported otherness, with foundational equality women could compete with men. innate female characteristics are a myth

  "one is not born but becomes a women"
• bell hooks: Aint I a women?

  Liberal movement is largely white middle class.

  liberation of some women at the expense of other women.

  intersectionality.

  all women have different experiences
• Key thinkers for feminism are:

  Kate Millet (radical)

  Charlotte Perkins Gilman (Socialist)

  Simone de Beauvoir (liberal)

  bell hooks (postmodern, intersectional)

  Sheila Rowbotham (Socialist)