Human Person in Society - Feminism

Human Person in Society: Feminism

Liberal Feminism

Liberalism

• Men are rational creatures who want to pursue their individual interests

• The state should be a neutral enitity

• Public sphere, not the private sphere, should be regulated

Open Ended

OPEN-ENDED QUESTION:

According to liberal feminism, why are women are oppressed?

Multiple Select

What is the ideal society, according to liberal feminism?

• Consideration on autonomy should be extended to women

• People should be judged by their gender

• Women should be allowed to participate in the public sphere

• The state should interfere in the private sphere and make men more participative in the household

Liberal feminism

• Give women power in the public sphere, and to incorporate them into public life

• Extend liberalism's consideration towards women

• A future where people are judged by merit rather than gender

Open Ended

OPEN-ENDED QUESTION:

What are liberal feminists' proposals for social change?

I do not wish them [women] to

have power over men; but over

themselves.

Mary Wollstonecraft

Marxist Feminism

Open Ended

OPEN-ENDED QUESTION:

In a Marxist analysis of women's oppression, what are the chain of events that lead to women being oppressed?

Multiple Choice

Women's labor was not given importance in society, even before the invention of private property.

• True

• False

Before private property...

• Hunter-gatherer society

  Women's labor was tied to the survival of society, thus they were more important

• Society was matrilineal in nature

Marxism and feminism

• Upon the invention of agriculture and livestock rearing, men took hold of the means of production and amassed wealth

  Family developed as a way to gain and pass down property

• Women's worth were tied to the household

Open Ended

OPEN-ENDED QUESTION:

What are Marxist feminists' proposals for social change?

Radical Feminism

Multiple Choice

According to radical feminists, what is the source of women's oppression?

• Lack of economic opportunities

• Lack of education

• Heterosexuality

• Men

• Their biological sex

Radical feminism

• "Man fucks woman; subject verb object."

• Distinction of male culture vs. female culture in society, where male culture is dominant

• Power differential between men and women, as practiced in heterosexuality, should be eradicated

How else is heterosexuality used to oppress women?

• Forced marriage

• Forced pregnancy

• Lack of freedom of choice for women's reproductive capacity

Radical feminists want women to be free from men, rather than be equal to them.

The power differential between men and women should be eradicated.

Multiple Select

SELECT ALL THAT APPLY:

Which of the following are radical feminisms' concrete proposals for social change?

• Incorporating women in the workforce and keeping them there

• Creating a womanculture

• Having a degree of separatism from men

• Assessing the colonial nature of gender

• Having more female members in the government

Decolonial Feminism

Open Ended

OPEN-ENDED QUESTION:

Briefly explain what INTERSECTIONALITY means.

Multiple Choice

According to decolonial feminists, the mainstream concept of gender is indigenous.

(indigenous means something produced natively or locally)

• True

• False

Multiple Choice

Colonizers saw indigenous people as part of the ___ order.

• rational

• philosophical

• natural

• spiritual

Open Ended

OPEN-ENDED QUESTION:

Briefly narrate how and why the concept of gender was introduced to colonized cultures.

Decolonial feminism

• Originally coined by Argentinian feminist philosopher Maria Lugones

• Influenced by the rise of the approach of intersectionality and the concept of modernity/coloniality

• Protests against the European/Westernized mainstream concept of gender

Western hegemony?

• Gender as we know it today is based on European understanding of gender

• Colonization erased existing ways of life, cosmology, and sense of identity

• Some indigenous cultures had different sense of identity, sex, and gender; some had no social category for gender at all

Open Ended

OPEN-ENDED QUESTION:

What are decolonial feminists proposal/s for social change? Be as specific as possible.

Open Ended

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