feminist perspective of peace

1. PC/2013/019

2.  Introduction
 History of Feminism
 Liberal Feminism
 Marxist Feminism
 Radical Feminism
 Analytic Feminism
 Conservative Feminism
 Feminist criticism
 Feminist perspectives of peace
 Conclusion

3.  Feminism is movement about making
revolutionary changes to our culture and
power relation between men and women
 Feminism has a different meaning of almost
every women around the world
 Some may believe a feminist is someone
completely anti male some believe feminist
is a someone is a fighters for women’s
rights

4.  First wave of feminism
Early form of feminism which developed in
the mid 19th century and was based on the pursuit of
sexual equality in the areas of political and legal
rights. Suffrage rights.
 Second wave of feminism
1960 and 1970 radical concern with
women’s liberation with private sphere

6. A form of feminism that is grounded in
the belief that sexual differences are
irrelevant to personal worth and calls for
equal rights for women and men in public
sphere
 Individualism
 Access to public realm equal rights/ opportunities
 Reform/ Gradualism
 Political activism
 Female emancipation

7. A form of feminism that holds gender
division to be the most politically significant
of social cleavages and believes that the are
rooted in the structures of domestic life
 Women’s liberation
 Patriarchy
 Sisterhood
 Gender equality
 Revolutionary change
 Sexual politics

8. Marx felt when class oppression was
overcome gender oppression would vanish as
well. Marx against the demonization of men
and supported a proletarian revolution that
would overcome as many male female
inequalities as possible
 Links the subordination of women to the dynamic
of the capitalist economic system emphasizing that
women’s liberation requires a process of radial
social change.
 Class oppression
 Restructure economic life to achieve gender
equality

9.  Analytic feminism holds that many tradition
philosophical notion are not normatively
compelling but also in some ways
empowering and liberating for women
 There is best a family resemblance among
analytic feminist
 Analytic feminism holds the best way to
counter sexism
 Defends on notion of universality to truth,
justice and objectivity and univocality of
‘’women’’

10.  ‘’ Adopts a male model of careerism and
public achievement as female goals, thereby
denying women’s need for intimacy family
and children’’
 They fear that ‘’equality means death of
family :”
 The brake down of the family is seen as the
cause of rising crime
 Divorce is seen as “too easy” and benefits “
too generous”
 The conservatives alarmed by the growing
number of single mothers

11.  Liberal Feminism
- The claim that women can become like men if they set their
mind to it
- The claim that most women want to become like men
 Marxist Feminism
- Silent on sexual division of labour
- Only focused on economic classification
 Radical feminism
 - How to bridge gender gap- Radical Feminism does not
focus
- It has a great contribution to uplift women’s situation

13.  Feminist concept of peace are basis on the
universal integration of a gender perspective in
to all sphere, as well as on the equal
participation of women and men at all level in
peace processes, but especially in the context
of security and peace
 Gender inequality cause to armed conflict
addressing this issue helps to drive peace
 Feminist perspective are not completely about
peace it contribute valuable insight to the root
cause of war

14.  Liberal feminism - Reformism
 Radical feminism - Patriarchy
 Marxist feminism - Capitalism
 Analytical feminism – Domination
 Conservative feminism – Exploitation
Women and men are not very
different in their attitudes, the underlying
structure of those attitudes usually varies.
Finally according to my opinion men and
women equal and gender is a only concept