PHIL 2060 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Matriarchy, Socialist Feminism, Sexual Assault
10 Jan 2018
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Natural/ essential difference between women and men that cannot be changed (men are superior) and so they dominate, women are inferior and so they subordinate. There is no such thing as a matriarchy! Women"s social and political rights being equal to men"s. Gerda lerner, the creation of feminist consciousness, p. 274: Dictionary, p. 522: the doctrine advocating social and political rights for women equal to those of men. Mary anne warren, the nature of woman: an encyclopedia & guide to the literature, p. 151: the moral or political commitment or movement to achieve equality for women. Some people think that in order to speak about feminism, you need to have first person information, and that is easily accessible. (social condition) the individual condition is that you know and have read this existing information. White people can teach black feminism, if they have done their homework: philosophical/ theoretical meaning feminism as a set of social/ political ideas.
