Different perspectives of Feminism.

1. FEMINIST THEORIES
_Roberta Hamilton
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2. Can women free themselves
from men’s domination?
How these arguments of feminist
affect sociology?
How does gender binary subordinate
women?
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If feminism a solution or a problem?

3. Some Origins of Feminist Theories
Theory Assumptions
1. Liberal
feminism
All similarly talented; it is only after we begin to specialize
in various activities that we become more proficient
relative to others who do not so specialize.
-Adam Smith as cited by (Zera, 2016)
“Who made men the exclusive judge, if women partake
with him the gift of reason.”
– (Mary Wollstonecraft, 1972) as cited by (Akram, 2015)
• Laws that decreed women are lesser than men are a
product of ignorance
*Sol’n: expand the rights and opportunities of women
through legislation

4. Some Origins of Feminist Theories
Theory Assumptions
Marxism
and the
Woman
Question
_F. Engels
Women become property because men start to have
private property
• Abolition of private property leads to women’s
emancipation
Critique/Questions
• Why is it easy for men to take women as their
property?
• Should have looked at mode of reproduction,
consequences of men’s alienation from their seed and
from prosperity and their patriarchal gesture to take
control of women

5. Some Origins of Feminist Theories
Theory Assumptions
2. Socialist
Feminism
• Not only capitalists and men benefit from unpaid and
personal service of women but also they helped create
and naturalized gender distinction
• Family is patriarchal set by capitalist
How oppression happen:
1. No access higher on education
2. Many men never earned family wage
3. Men earn the main wage
Sol’n: Socialist Government and change of society’s
structure

6. Some Origins of Feminist Theories
Theory Assumptions:
3.
Radical
Feminism
• Men oppressed women through unequal allotment of
reproductive tasks
• Overthrowing oppression is the first struggle of
feminists
*Sol’n: Men should be removed from child rearing
Women should separate themselves from men

7. FEMINIST THEORY AND THE ACADEMY:
FEMINIST PRECURSORS IN SOCIOLOGY
“Feminists made manifest a social problem that was
invisible mainstream sociology prior to the 1960s.”
-cited by (Hamilton, 1993) on (Komarovsky, 1991)
Why was sociology oblivious?
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8. CONTEMPORARY FEMINIST THEORETICAL DEBATES
Antiracism and Intersectionality
“Feminist must take into account (women’s experiences) into
consideration; failing to do so risk marginalizing women who
do not comply with specific conceptualisations.”
(Maj, 2013)
Challenging gender and the Sex/Gender Binary
1. Feminism and Psychoanalysis
2. Poststructuralism
3. New Science/Materialism studies

9. FEMINIST THOUGHT W/O WOMEN AND
MEN
“We can only know what ‘man’ is through its
opposition, ‘women’. The female is everything
that is absent from the male and vice versa.”
-as cited by (Hamilton, ‘93) in (Hird,2002)
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10. Can women free themselves from
men’s domination?
How does gender binary
subordinate women?
Will it be better for the society if male
and female have equal opportunity?
NO
“The cure then for this state is domination over men
or elimination of them.”
(Rossister, 2006)
Women’s gender roles reproduction and support
activities limits their autonomy.
(Epstein, 2006)
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If feminism a solution or a problem?

11. REFERENCES
HAMILTON, R. (1993). Feminist theories. Queen’s
University: Ontorio, Canada.
ROSSITER, L. (2006). The liberal mind: The psychological causes of
Political Madness. Retrieved September 7, 2016 from
https://books.google.com.ph
EPSTEIN, C. (2006). Great divides: The cultural, cognitive, and social bases
of global subordination of women. Retrieved September 7, 2016
from http://www.asanet.org
MAJ, J. (2013). The significance of Intersectionality for feminist
political theory. Retrieved September 7, 2016 from
http://www.e-ir.info
AKRAM, M. (2015). Radical vs. Liberal Feminist Legal Theory. Retrieved
September 8, 2016 from https://apakistaninotebook.wordpress
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ZERA. (2013). Adam Smith Free Trade International Trade Theory.
Retrieved September 8, 2016 from http://www.economictheories.org