HREQ 3010 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: For Marx, Universal Declaration Of Human Rights, Eurocentrism

• School: York University
• Department: Human Rights and Equity Studies
• Course: HREQ 3010
• Professor: Glenn Goshulak

Document Summary

There are several waves of feminism; there is no single perspective on feminism. First wave: liberal feminism: classic liberal feminist texts include mary wollstonecraft"s a vindication of the. Rights of woman (1792) and john stuart mill"s subjection of women (1861). Contemporary liberal feminism also has its roots in the nineteenth century women"s suffrage movement: much contemporary feminist theory defines itself in reaction against liberal feminism. Other rights following women right: right to higher education, right to vote, etc. Most of women"s rights had been achieved by the 20th century, however the inequality still exists. Classical liberal feminism did not seem to have an answer to this: the idea of private work does not exist in liberal feminist ideals, liberal feminism does not account for different classes. Nanny"s: pregnancy, childcare, child birth all posed articles for further independence, therefore liberal feminism is very problematic as it focuses only on the public sphere of rights.