PSYC 3480 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1-5: Liberal Feminism, Prejudice, Allosome
20 Oct 2015
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Cultural feminism: belief that everyone benefits if we can reduce our culture"s rigid gender roles, emphasizes positive qualities that are presumed to be stronger in women than in men, qualities such as nurturing and care taking, focuses on gender differences that value women, rather than on the gender similarities of liberal feminism, often argue that society should be restructured to emphasize cooperation rather than aggression. Radical feminism: argues that the basic cause of women"s oppression lies deep in the entire sex and gender system, rather than in some superficial laws and policies, emphasize that sexism permeates our society, form the personal level in male female relationships to the national and international levels, argues that our society needs to dramatically change its policies on sexuality and on violence against women. Androcentrism/ normative male problem: men are the standard of comparison, whereas women are the second sex .
