Feminism Study guides, Class notes & Summaries

Uitgebreide samenvatting van alle literatuur voor het vak youth and sexuality, exam A. Bevat: A: Laan, E. T., Klein, V., Werner, M. A., van Lunsen, R. H., & Janssen, E. (2021). In pursuit of pleasure: A biopsychosocial perspective on sexual pleasure and gender. International Journal of Sexual Health, 1-21. Bullough, V. L. (1998). Alfred Kinsey and the Kinsey Report: Historical overview and lasting contributions. The Journal of Sex Research, 35(2), 127- 131. Vanwesenbeeck, I. (2009). Doing gen...

Feminism notes 5 key thinkers beliefs simplified Strands of feminism Liberal feminist Social feminist Intersectional/post modern feminism Impacts of: human nature, economy, state, society Core beliefs: personal is political, sex and gender, patriarchy, equality and difference, intersectional

Detailed revision notes on Feminism (part of the UK Government and Non-Core Political Ideas paper). Includes access to key thinker profiles, summarised theory notes and examples. Refers to all branches and concepts specified by the exam board. Work produced by a student with four A* predictions and an Oxbridge offer.

Briefly outline the 4 waves of feminism - First wave (1850s-1940s): focused on legal and political rights of women, mostly famously via the suffragette movement, culminated in equal suffrage (1928). Second Wave (1960s-80s): focused on the different roles that society expected of men and women. Concepts of patriarchy, sex v. Gender and the personal is the political. Third wave feminism (1990s): concerned with intersectionality, feminism thus far had focused solely on white middle class women...

Race -A social construction - Imposing social meanings onto real and/or imagined physiological characteristic (superiority/inferiority) - A way to legitimize the colonial subjugation/subordination of European colonized and continue to deny them access to resources - Racism in engrained in nation building - Seen as static/fixed, inherent and unchangeable - Socially grounded in politics, capitalism, and unequal social relations among different groups of people - Maintained by dominant elit...

Race -A social construction - Imposing social meanings onto real and/or imagined physiological characteristic (superiority/inferiority) - A way to legitimize the colonial subjugation/subordination of European colonized and continue to deny them access to resources - Racism in engrained in nation building - Seen as static/fixed, inherent and unchangeable - Socially grounded in politics, capitalism, and unequal social relations among different groups of people - Maintained by dominant elit...

English Literature - works for all exam boards. The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood In-depth Context Includes: • Reaganism: Ronald Reagan’s presidency and the Conservative religious right • The Moral Majority – what did this seek to push back against? (1960s and 1970s advances in what?) • The Equal Rights Amendment • Roe vs Wade • Phyllis Schlafly and the 1980s feminist backlash • Second wave feminism • Rachel Carson and ‘The Silent Spring’ 1962 • Pu...

Core ideas and principles of feminism and how they relate to human nature, the state, society and the economy: • sex and gender – sex refers to biological differences between men • patriarchy • the personal is political • equality feminism and difference feminism • intersectionality

What are the core ideas and principles? - -Most of these core ideas and principles are associated with the second wave radical feminism. -Radical feminism introduced new ideas and concepts for discussing and challenging the role of women in society. -Although there has been discussion before it has mostly been arranged around the language of liberalism or socialism. 5 Key ideas - -Sex and gender. -Patriarchy. -The personal is political. -Equality and difference feminism. -Intersectiona...

Origins and developments -- Feminist ideas can be traced back to the ancient civilisations of Greece and China - Christine De Pisan's Book of the City of Ladies published in Italy (1405) foreshadowed many ideas of modern feminism such as advocating women's rights to education - The first text of modern feminism is Mary Wollstonecraft's the Vindication of the Rights of Women (1792) - By the mid 19th C the women's movement acquired a central focus which was the right to vote Origins and...