Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Feminism -
Still important?
- Natasha Walter (The
New Feminism 1998)
- Equality Feminism
- Feminism is still relevant today!
- Pay inequalities
- Sexual discrimination
- Legal inequalities - rape victims
- 'Women must have financial & material equality"
- Most women want this ^
- Reluctant to associate with old,
negative stereo types - 1970s!
- "The person is political"
- Hindrance to modern feminism! ^
- "By hanging on the this stereotype, feminism loses out twice"
- Katherine Viner (1999)
- Many aspects of women's lives remain political
- Women are judged more harshly than men - ("slag" vs "stud")
- Stereo type (Walter) associated with
dogmatic women who tried to tell others
how to live their personal lives
- The stereo type is both unfair & inaccurate!!
- "The person is political' was meant to
create an awareness of how our personal
lives are ruled by politcal factors
- Germaine Greer
- "Aiming for equality with
men is simply not enough"
- Liberal Feminism
- Despite equality
legislation - women
still face oppression in
their personal lives
- "Equality legislation could not
give me the right to have broad
hips or hairy thighs, to be at
ease with my woman's body"
- Men can also suffer
oppression - custody trials
- "Women should be
aiming for a feminism
based upon 'liberation'
rather than 'equality'
- "The notion of equality takes the
male status quo as the condition
to which women aspire"
- Imelda Whelehan
- Critical of Walter!
- "Walter's optimism for the future is
infectious, it is just regrettable that the
feminism of the future is being built upon a
certain amnesia about the past"
- Ideas of "choice" & "control" -
women do not have control!
- Popular culture! :(
- Page 3 models?
- Within Walter's feminism "the only
possible aim is equality within patriarchy"