feminism

• difference feminism


  argued other feminist theories claim to be about women but only about experiences of white, western heterosexual middle class women
• essentialism


  ideas that women share all the same experiences of oppression
• Judith butler - poststructuralist feminist 


  no fixed structure on what it is to be a women

  there are many different identities of womanhood

  enables us to de-construct different discourses e.g medicine, sexuality, religion

  a03 - may divide women into infinite number of sub groups therefore weakening feminism
• liberal feminists


  seek legal reforms and changes in attitudes

  march of progress view
• radical feminists


  see patriarchy as the fundamental conflict in society

  must take down patriarchy
• marxist feminists


  see patriarchy and capitalism as main oppressors