Feminism is defined by the belief that 'the personal is the political'. Discuss
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- Feminism is defined by the belief that 'the personal is the political'. Discuss
- Radical
- Patriarchy, dominance of men lie in structures of family and domestic life
- Conditioning to make children conform to particular gender identities and stereotypes takes place in family
- Germaine Greer, this has 'castrated women' led them to being conditioned to passive sexual role
- Brownmiller 'ideology of ****' that keeps women in state of fear which all men benefit from
- Nature of politics should be redefined
- Power structures of male domination in society reflect those in personal life
- Patriarchy must be overthrown by sexual revolution
- Socialist
- Reserve army of labour
- Women often vital to the economy but also not recognised for it
- Patriarchy rooted in social and economic structure, p and capitalism interlocking systems of oppression
- Institution of family, women stays at home with domestic duties whilst man goes out to work
- Men celebrated as 'breadwinners' and spared the 'trivial' nature of domestic life
- Engels 'bourgeois family' and idea of private property
- Goes to sons entrenching specific gender identities
- Reserve army of labour
- Liberal
- Personal sphere realm of freedom and personal autonomy
- Shaped by natural not political forces
- Women have natural inclination towards domestic life
- Protects indv from state control
- Shaped by natural not political forces
- Focus on legal and formal equality in the public sphere, same opps
- Right to vote, education, J.S. Mill, Wollstonecraft (they are human beings'
- Personal sphere realm of freedom and personal autonomy
- Post Feminists
- Need to redefine what 'womanhood' is
- Radical
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