SOC 1105 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Marxist Feminism, Juliet Mitchell, Annie Kenney

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOC 1105
• Professor: Liam Kilmurray

Document Summary

The way the sexes are perceived, and expected to behave. Feminism a doctrine that advocates equal rights for women the term feminism can be used to describe a political, cultural or economic movement aimed at establishing equal rights and legal protection for women. Feminism involves political, cultural and sociological theories, as well as philosophies concerned with issues of gender difference. Patriarchy social organization marked by the supremacy of the father in the clan or family, the legal dependence of wives and children, and the reckoning of descent and inheritance in the male line. Amongst the iroquois women tended" the fields, cooked the food, were responsible for manufacturing of clothing and the maintenance of the longhouse. Iroquois women also held a veto" over the selection of chiefs. Second wave: refers to a period of feminist activity which began during the early 1960s and lasted through the early 1990s.