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• What are the 5 types of feminists?

  -Liberal Feminism

  -Marxist Feminsim

  -Radical Feminism

  -Difference Feminism

  -Postodern Feminism
• What did the Liberal Feminists believe?


  Want to end discrimination in employment+they don't think that equality in families have been reached-there has been progress:Men are doing more domestic labour+there is more access to abortions-reproductive rights.
• What did the Marxist Feminists believe?

  Capitalism is the cause for women's oppression because the work they do for the family benefits the capitalist society+it causes exploitation of the working class and women- only way to stop this is to make a more equal communist society.
• Barrett's ideology of familism


  It is used to present the nuclear family+sexual division to show that it is natural- This maintains the idea that women are subordinate to men-benefits capitalism.

  The women soak up the frustrations that are caused by work. Fran Ansley calls them-"Takers of shit".
• What do radical feminists believe?


  That all of society is based on patriarchy. Men benefit from the women's unpaid domestic labour, emotional labour and sexual services.
• Criticisms of radical feminism

  Liberal-they didn't look at recent improvements-better access to divorce, better job opportunities and control over their own fertility.
• What does Firestone argue?

  Women will stay subordinate because of their biology- women will be free from the role of reproduction+they would start a new kind of parenting which would lead to the disappearance of nuclear families.

  Matrilocal-all female household-Germaine Greer
• What do difference feminists believe?


  includes black feminists which emerged from concerns other feminist theorists focused on subordination of white mc women ignoring ethnic minorities experiences as not all women are in same position as oppression can take diverse forms and specific groups may face multiple oppression particularly in postmodern society with social structures like gender have weakened as source of identity and people pick'n' mix their identities-Maya Angelou-'I sustain myself with the love of family.
• What do postmodern feminists believe?

  Stacey-studied women and the networks they form after divorce/death of partners-found that friends 'fill in'+act like surrogates for single mothers.
• Criticisms of the feminist perspective

  -They only focus on the Nuclear family+doesn't recognise family diversity.

  -Ignore that people have choices with the way that they live-They assume that society such as capitalism and patriarchy influence the structure and our actions.