Slide show prepared for a series of lectures on feminism for PS 240 Introduction to Political Theory at the University of Kentucky, Fall 2007. Dr. Christopher S. Rice, Lecturer.
28. Power Feminism a conservative 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 An effort to reclaim femininity as “girl power”, portraying the sexualized female not as the image of male desire but as a liberating image of femininity.
36. Basic Idea: To re-invigorate feminist politics, to overcome a sentiment of postfeminism, by reconceptualizing feminism within a new global/local politics.
51. The wife differs from 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