GSWS 101 Study Guide - Final Guide: Focusing, Sex Assignment, Umbrella Term
17 May 2020
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Maternal feminism was based partly on the idea that women had special qualities of kindness and religiosity that made them well suited to home life and childcare. Maternal feminists used these ideas to argue that women"s special qualities of womanhood and motherhood could to be applied to improve the public sphere. Equal-rights feminism held that women should have access to jobs, education, and the vote on the basis of their fundamental human equality to men. They tended to downplay differences between men and women and instead emphasize commonalities. Most early feminists argued from both perspectives and held both viewpoints simultaneously. (module 1, the first wave) Importance: first-wave feminism was characterized by these two dominant forms of thought, from which women argued for the importance of women"s role in the public sphere: intersex: Intersex- infants born with ambiguous or not clearly defines male/female genitalia. (module 4, power of gender)
