Feminism - Still important?

Natasha Walter (The New Feminism 1998)
1. Equality Feminism
2. Feminism is still relevant today!
3. Pay inequalities
4. Sexual discrimination
5. Legal inequalities - rape victims
6. 'Women must have financial & material equality"
7. Most women want this ^
8. Reluctant to associate with old, negative stereo types - 1970s!
9. "The person is political"
10. Hindrance to modern feminism! ^
11. "By hanging on the this stereotype, feminism loses out twice"
Katherine Viner (1999)
1. Many aspects of women's lives remain political
2. Women are judged more harshly than men - ("slag" vs "stud")
3. Stereo type (Walter) associated with dogmatic women who tried to tell others how to live their personal lives
4. The stereo type is both unfair & inaccurate!!
5. "The person is political' was meant to create an awareness of how our personal lives are ruled by politcal factors
Germaine Greer
1. "Aiming for equality with men is simply not enough"
2. Liberal Feminism
3. Despite equality legislation - women still face oppression in their personal lives
4. "Equality legislation could not give me the right to have broad hips or hairy thighs, to be at ease with my woman's body"
5. Men can also suffer oppression - custody trials
6. "Women should be aiming for a feminism based upon 'liberation' rather than 'equality'
7. "The notion of equality takes the male status quo as the condition to which women aspire"
Imelda Whelehan
1. Critical of Walter!
2. "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"
3. Ideas of "choice" & "control" - women do not have control!
4. Popular culture! :(
5. Page 3 models?
6. Within Walter's feminism "the only possible aim is equality within patriarchy"

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