WEEK ONE OF RESEARCH: DAY ONE
My research plan for this week is as follows: This week I need to do all of my background research on feminism. I need to discover which experts I would like to contact, read into different types of feminism, choose texts I would like to use for research, and discover which areas of feminism I am most interested in.
Today: I have looked researched the different types of feminism and the history of feminism. I have used a google search, using several articles and sources for each part of my research in order to maximise reliability of information.
Sources used:
RED = USA specific article (but all information does relate to the UK waves of feminism)
British Feminism History Timeline - use for dates on legislation and large events
Pioneers of feminism:
- Sappho - Ancient Greece (570BC)
- Hildegard of Bingen - Medieval
- Christine de Pisan
- Olympes de Gouge
- Mary Wollstonecraft
- Jane Austen
First Wave Feminism:
- Late 19th to early 20th century
- Goal: open up opportunities for women
- Focus on suffrage
- Formally began with rally at Seneca Falls convention 1848 (300 men and women rallied for equality of men and women)
- Generally propelled by middle class white women
- Suffragettes/suffragists trying to gain the vote
- Legal inequalities
Second Wave Feminism:
- Began 1960s carried on to 1990s
- A radical movement
- Sexuality and reproductive rights were dominant issues
- Goal: Pass equal rights amendment to the constitution (social equality regardless of sex)
- Very theoretical movement - Marxism and psycho-analytical theory
- Drew in many different types of women
- Social and cultural inequalities
- Still happening in some countries
Third Wave Feminism:
- Began mid 90s
- Dismantled many social constructs - slut, bitch, heteronormativity, sexuality, body
- Use of the internet
- Global and multi-cultural movement
- Combat issues such as women’s influence in politics, female stereotypes and media portrayal of women
Sources:
http://bitchmagazine.org/article/everything-about-feminism-you-wanted-to-know-but-were-afraid-to-ask
Branches of feminism:
- All branches agree on three key things: equal rights & opportunities for women, all recognise that women are oppressed and exploited by virtue of being women, all organise to make change
Liberal Feminism:
- Views discrimination on women unjust as deprives of equal opportunities
- Do not think oppression of women is due to capitalism, do not seek to overthrow governmental system
- Concerned with rectifying the discrimination that grows out of socialisation
- Works within structure of mainstream society to bring women into that structure
Social Feminism:
- Aims to integrate issues of gender and class - bring together patriarchy and capitalism
- Targets state/government as site of ‘patriarchal capitalist’ power
- Struggles for women's control of reproduction
Radical Feminism:
- Rejects liberal feminisms willingness to work in the frame of current society
- Womens oppression is viewed as the fundamental oppression
- Sees sexism as the root of other issues such as class hatred, racism, ageism, war
- See the world as men controlling womens bodies, believe women need a women only space where they can nurture each other, gain control over their bodies and develop a women culture
- Main issues have been violence against women (rape, sexual harassment, incest, pornography, domestic violence)
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