SOCIOL 2S06 Lecture Notes - Liberal Feminism, Socialist Feminism, Radical Feminism
1 Apr 2013
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2)describes the social world from the viewpoint of women. Is a wide-ranging system of ideas about social life & human experience developed from a woman-centered perspective. Woman-centered in 2 ways: 1) examines the situations & experiences of women in society. Differs from most other types of soc theory: is interdisciplinary (draws upon a variety of other disciplines --> sociology, psychology, political science, cultural studies, etc: the concept of gender. Sex is a biological concept and refers to physical differences between males & females. Gender is a social concept that refers to culturally-learned behaviour associated with masculinity and femininity. Our culture defines competition to be masculine while defining cooperation to be feminine In society, whatever is defined as masculine is valued in society. Whatever is defined as feminine is devalued in society: some types of feminist theory cultural feminism liberal feminism radical feminism socialist feminism. Is a branch of feminism that explores and even celebrates the distinctive social values of women.
