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Feminism
The document explores various aspects of feminism and its evolution through different waves, highlighting key figures, ideologies, and public support for feminist values in America. It discusses the acceptance of feminist ideals in contemporary society and critiques liberal and radical feminism, while also touching on themes like power feminism and lifestyle feminism. The document emphasizes the need for a reinvigorated feminist politics that acknowledges both global and local contexts.
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Feminism
- 1. Feminism Dr. ChristopherS. Rice
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- 3. “ Feminism isan entire world view of gestalt, not just a laundry list of women’s issues.” Charlotte Bunch
- 4. “ The trueRepublic: men, their rights and nothing more; women, their rights and nothing less.” Susan B. Anthony
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- 11. Americans still support traditional feminist values… 53% of Americans supported affirmative action programs for women. 87% favored “training courses or policies that raise people’s awareness about fairness in hiring women.” 71% favored hiring quotas for women. Irony: feminist ideals now so accepted that they’re no longer associated with feminism. “I’m not a feminist, but…”.
- 12. Americans still support traditional feminist values… 53% of Americans supported affirmative action programs for women. 87% favored “training courses or policies that raise people’s awareness about fairness in hiring women.” 71% favored hiring quotas for women. Irony: feminist ideals now so accepted that they’re no longer associated with feminism. “I’m not a feminist, but…”.
- 13. Americans still support traditional feminist values… 53% of Americans supported affirmative action programs for women. 87% favored “training courses or policies that raise people’s awareness about fairness in hiring women.” 71% favored hiring quotas for women. Irony: feminist ideals now so accepted that they’re no longer associated with feminism. “I’m not a feminist, but…”.
- 14. Americans still support traditional feminist values… 53% of Americans supported affirmative action programs for women. 87% favored “training courses or policies that raise people’s awareness about fairness in hiring women.” 71% favored hiring quotas for women. Irony: feminist ideals now so accepted that they’re no longer associated with feminism. “I’m not a feminist, but…”.
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- 19. The Struggle forSuffrage
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- 23. Commission on theStatus of Women created in 1961 by JFK to report on the status of women in America, in all 50 states.
- 24. Title VII ofthe 1964 Civil Rights Act prohibited sexual discrimination in employment and the EEOC was charged with enforcing this.
- 25. Betty Friedan publishedThe Feminine Mystique.
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- 28. Power Feminism aconservative feminism, resembling many of Phyllis Schlafly’s arguments vs. liberal feminism (which holds that liberal feminism portrays women as the innocent victims of male desire).
- 29. Lifestyle Feminism Aneffort to reclaim femininity as “girl power”, portraying the sexualized female not as the image of male desire but as a liberating image of femininity.
- 30. Problems with SecondWave Feminism
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- 33. Fall of theUSSR
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- 35. Third Wave Feminismvs. Second Wave Feminism
- 36. Basic Idea: To re-invigorate feminist politics, to overcome a sentiment of postfeminism, by reconceptualizing feminism within a new global/local politics.
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- 40. Legal Reforms ElectionsChange
- 41. “ The ProblemWith No Name”
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- 43. False Universalism: JustLike Men???
- 44. Is liberal feminismtoo white, middle-class, heterosexual?
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- 46. A little bitanarchist, a little bit Marxist…
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- 48. Women’s oppression historical , not natural
- 49. Modes of Production& Matrilineal societies
- 50. Marriage is aBad Deal
- 51. The wife differsfrom the prostitute only in that “she does not hire out her body like a wageworker, on piecework, but sells it into slavery once and for all.” Friedrich Engels
- 52. Does liberal feminismbegin to look a little ridiculous?
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- 56. The problem ofobjectivity
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- 58. “ Woman” asa Strategic Concept?
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- 62. The Problem ofPolitical Resistance
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