- ‘Female’ refers to biological sex, whereas ‘feminine’ refers to cultural expectations or norms governing female gender roles.
- The oppression of women in the family supports capitalist production by maintaining the current generation of workers and by reproducing and socialising the next generation of workers. Women also provide a cheap reserve army of labour for capitalism.
- They argue that feminism needs to consider all women, in many different circumstances, not just white Western women.
- Physical violence; economic; political; legal.
- Liberal feminists.
- True (though some individual men may benefit also).
- It was male dominated and looked at society from a male perspective.
- The idea that all women share the same ‘essence’ or same fundamental characteristics and experience.
- Oppression is not just about how women are seen, but the result of real structural inequality; the feminist movement is weakened by dividing women into many different sub-groups; poststructuralist feminism ignores the important similarities in the position of all women.
