• a body of theory and political practice • concerned with oppression of women • concerned to challenge the exploitation of women’s labour • concerned to challenge the social discrimination suffered by women Feminism? …or is it more accurate to talk of feminisms?
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• a body of theory and political practice• concerned with oppression of women• concerned to challenge the exploitation of women’s labour• concerned to challenge the social discrimination suffered by women
Feminism?
…or is it more accurate to talk of feminisms?
• liberal feminism - seeks equality and recognition• radical feminism - seeks to overthrow patriarchy• socialist feminism - sees women’s oppression as the result of both
patriarchy and capitalism
Feminisms
‘the symbolic annihilation of women’
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M9fFOelpE_8
• media and popular culture excludes women• media and popular culture trivialises women• media and popular culture condemns women• perpetuates the sexual division of labour and the oppression of
women.
In this way women are socialised into adopting particular roles (domestic labour, sex object) by symbolically rewarding them for good behaviour or punishing them for errant/bad behaviour.
In this way women are socialised into adopting particular roles (domestic labour, sex object) by symbolically rewarding them for good behaviour or punishing them for errant/bad behaviour.
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