DISS: FEMINISM

• FEMINISM


  refers to the belief that men and women deserve equalityin all opportunities, treatment, respect, and social rights
• FEMINISM

  • studies gender and its relation to power, and the dynamics thesetwo concepts play out in economics, politics, sexuality, race andnationality among others
  • both a sociological perspective and a philosophy that aims topromote gender equality, social justice, and women’s rights
  • tries to address is the oppression of women in society and thepatriarchal structure of most societies
• FEMINIST


  are people who try to acknowledge social inequalitybased on gender and stop it from continuing.
• FEMINIST


  point out that in most cultures throughout historymen have received more opportunities than women.
• GOAL OF FEMINISM


  The goal of feminism is the equality of all sexes
• FEMINIST THEORY


  includes attempts to describe andexplain how gender systems work, as well as aconsideration of normative or ethical issues, such aswhether a society's gender arrangements are fair
• FEMINIST THEORY


  With the introduction of feminism, policies andperspective become inclusive as females become now asocial actor. It does not merely focus on marginalized women butrather equality in terms of interaction.
• GENDER EQUALITY, THE MANTRA OF FEMINISM


  Gender equality, being a fundamental human right, is necessary to achieve peace in all aspects of life. It is believed that gender equality does not depict any social or political differences in terms of significance. According to the Philippine Commission on Women, in thearticle Philippines drops 8 places in gender equality, remains topin Asia, “The Philippines remains the top country in Asia in termsof closing the gender gap” as per Global Gender Gap Report 2020 of the World Economic Forum
• LIBERAL FEMINIST cites women's oppression as rooted in social, political, and legal constraints
• RADICAL LIBERTARIAN FEMINISTS hold that the patriarchal system that oppresses women must be completely eliminated and that women should be free to exercise total secual and reproductive freedom
• RADICAL CULTURAL FEMINISTS urge women to extricate themselves from the institution of compulsory heterosexuality
• MARXIST-SOCIALIST FEMINIST claim it is impossible for anyone, especially women, to achieve true freedom in a class-based society
• MULTICULTURAL FEMINISTS explain how the idea of "sameness" could counter intuitively be used as an instrument of oppression rather than liberation
• GLOBAL FEMINISTS stress the universal interests of women worldwide
• GENDER IDEOLOGY is a social belief that supports gender inequality. It is a social divide that establishes percieved roles for men and women and relegating them to specific roles.
• GENDER IDEOLOGIES

  • women staying at home while men go to work
  • women being more delicate, emotional, and nurturing compare to me who are more aggressive, assertive, and dominant
  • action figures are supposed to be played by boys and dolls are to be played by girls
  • a boy playing with a doll is ridiculed as being gay, while a girl playing action figures is teased as a lesbian
• GENDER INEQUALITY is the actualization or realization of gender ideology
• GENDER INEQUALITY

  • There is gender inequality when the percieved roles of women subordination to men reflects hiring procedures and requirements
  • For example, a secretarial position accepting only female applicants
  • Salaries are also unequal when it comes to men and women
• TYPES OF FEMINISM

  RADICAL FEMINISM

  • is a movement that believes sexism is so deeply rooted insociety that the only cure is to eliminate the concept of gender completely
  • suggest changes, such as finding technology that will allow babies to be grown outside of a woman's body, to promote more equality between men and women
  • This will allow women to avoid missing work for maternity leave, which radical feminists argue is one reason women aren't promoted as quickly as men
• TYPES OF FEMINISM

  SOCIALIST FEMINISM

  • focuses on economics and politics
  • a movement that calls for an endto capitalism through a socialist reformation of our economy
  • Basically, socialist feminism argues that capitalism strengthens and supports the sexist status quo because men are the ones who currently have power and money
• TYPES OF FEMINISM

  CULTURAL FEMINISM

  • a movement that points out how modern society is hurt by encouraging masculine behavior, but society would benefit by encouraging feminine behavior instead
  • men and women have different approaches to the world around them, and that greater value should be placed on the way women approach the world
  • In some cases, cultural feminism argues that a woman’s way of looking at the world is actually superior to men.
• TYPES OF FEMINISM

  LIBERAL FEMINISM

  • an individualistic form of feminist theory
  • focuses on women's ability to maintain their equality through their own actions and choices
  • primary goal is gender equality in the public sphere, such as equal access to education, equal pay, ending job sex segregation.
  • It is broadly accepted that the proposition of contemporary advanced industrial societies are meritocratic, and that women as a group are not innately less
• STRENGHTS OF FEMINIST THEORY

  • The theory can be utilized using both macro and micro analysis of society
  • It emphasized the realization that both the public and private spheres of life are socially constructed
  • It gave equal emphasis on men and women in dealing with and solvong social issues
• IMPORTANT THEORIST IN FEMINISM

  Mary Wollstonecraft (1759-1797)

  • was an English writer philosopher, and women's right advocate
  • advocated that the human rights written by John Locke also be accorded to women
  • although Locke's human rights did not discriminate sexes, their applicationduring that time was relegated only to men
  • argued that women should also have the right to life, property, pursuit of happiness and suffrage
• IMPORTANT THEORIST IN FEMINISM


  Nancy Cott (born 1945)

  • is an American historian professor
  • traced the historicak roots of the feminist movement in America and identifies its paradoxes, struggles, and periods of decline
  • One paradox by Cott was the rise of two feminist ideologies (HUMAN FEMINISM and FEMALE FEMINISM)
• HUMAN FEMINISM argues for equal treatment of women and disapproves discrimination based on sex
• FEMALE FEMINISM argues solidarity amon women and acknowledges that there are differences in human capacities that are based on sex
• IMPORTANT THEORIST IN FEMINISM

  Adrienne Rich (1929-2012)

  • was an American poet, and feminist
  • she used poetry to bring to light the oppression of women and lesbians in society
  • her poems explored themes such as women's roles in society, racism, and war
  • In her essay, “Compulsory Heterosexuality and Lesbian Existence”, Rich defined how heterosexuality becomes an alienating and oppressing concept that only lends to the establishment of male dominance over women. Rich defined being a lesbian as more than a sexual preference, but acumulative lived experience of women and their history
• IMPORTANT THEORIST IN FEMINISM

  Judith Butler (born 1956)

  • is an American philosopher and gender theorist
  • her key idea is her theory of Gender Perfomativity
  • claims that gender is an action which is separable from the actor
  • for her, gender is not a pre-established identity, but an act of existing in as much
• GENDER PERFORMATIVITY is a theory on the creation of gender similar to how theatrical actors create roles identifiable to audiences
• GENDER IS A CHOICE refers to a choice to act according to how society established norms of masculinity or feminity
• IMPORTANT THEORIST IN FEMINISM

  Patricia Hill Collins (born 1948)

  • is an American sociologist
  • her work studies feminism in the perspective of a black women
  • argues that different oppressions happen within the context of race, gender, and class and that there are overlapping instances of oppression
  • claims that knowing the point of view of a black women's struggle and feminism can provide a window for other similarly oppressed groups or individuals
• IMPORTANT THEORIST IN FEMINISM

  Ayn Rand (1905-1982)

  • was an American novelist, philosopher and playwright
  • calling her philosophy objectivism
  • aimed to use reason in order to achieve personal happiness
  • her theories and arguments were not limited within the confines of the feminist agenda but encompassed all of human existence
  • she did not identify differences between genders because she talked about universalities such as human rights
  • she is considered a feminist due to her stance that all human beings are equal in their pursuit of self-interests and equal in upholding their rights
• HERMENEUTICAL PHENOMENOLOGY

  • a researched method used in qualitative research in the fields of education and other human sciences
  • phenomenolpgy becomes hermeneutical when its method is taken to be interpretive (rather than purely descriptive as a transcendental phenomenology)
  • refers to the art of understanding and the theory of interpretation
  • belief in the acceptance of multiple interpretations if a phenomenon
  • we are trapped in a world that is already full of meaning with its other people, its histories and cultures, and its events
• OBJECTIVISM

  • is living for one's own sake without sacrificing himself or herself for another
  • it is a philosophy determined to find personal truth and fulfill without the use of force or violence
• PHENOMENOLOGY refers to a person's perception of the meaning of an event, as opposed to the event as exist externally to (outside of) that person
• HERMENEUTICS in the study of literary texts, scholars frequently adhere to a set of rules or specific system on which to base their interpretation
• HERMES

  • served to interpret messages from the other gods.
  • Like Hermes' name, the term hermeneutics comes from the Greek word for 'interpreter'.
  • Aristotle first noted the concept of utilizing a system to interpret texts in early writings
• HERMENEUTIC ANALYSIS refers to a name for various methods of analysis, which are based on interpreting. The strategy forms an opposite to those research strategies which stress objectivity and independence of interpretations in the formations in formation of knowledge
• HERMENEUTIC RESEARCH enables you to make interpretations an gain an in-depth understanding of researched phenomenon. It emphasizes subjective interpretations in the research of meanings of texts, art, culture, social phenomena, and thinking