Feminist theory

Dorothy Cobble, Linda Gordon, and Astrid Henry further explain this idea in their book Feminism Unfinished! by explaining that the earlier generations of feminists focused on identifying the political and social inequalities they dealt with. Whereas the third wave of feminists sought out to address these inequalities. In further explanation, these authors stated, “While connected to earlier movements to advance gender equality and social justice, this new feminism was not a mass-based movement…

Feminist scholars began taking cues from the new theories arising from these movements to analyzing film. Initial attempts in the United States in the early 1970s were generally based on sociological theory and focused on the function of women characters in particular film narratives or genres and of stereotypes as a reflection of a society's view of women…

The work of the classical feminists such as, Harriet Martineau, Jane Addams, Charlotte Perkins Gilman and Ann Oakley have all paved the way for the contemporary feminist movement. Three main aspects in which they all help build in the female gender are Academics, Work and Sexuality. Many classical feminists such as Jane Addams and Harriet Martineau had believed that women should be given academic opportunities. Jane Addams is well known for her social work and empowerment of women in…

organized activity on the behalf of women 's rights and interest (Merriam 418). Feminist theory is one of the major contemporary sociological theories (Crossman n. pag.). History The term Feminism was first coined in France in the 1880s, originally said Feminisme. Femme means women and the -ism is in reference to a social movement. (Freedman. 3) Feminist politics began where capitalism, industrial growth, democratic theory and socialist critique came together. Feminism and the politics…

The elevation of women into the key sectors of power however is a growing attitude in feminist thought. The popularity of “Lean In”, a philosophy coined by Sheryl Sandberg, COO of Facebook, in her work “Lean In: Women, Work, and the Will to Lead”, promotes a trickle down theory of equality for women whereby women in power, by nature of having direct experience of gender inequality, particularly inequality in labour, both paid and unpaid, will naturally seek to end these inequalities when given…

up as a result of the social upheavals that existed in the US during these years. Black feminists by the 1970s felt that the women’s movement led by such feminist organizations as the National Organization for Women (NOW); was too dominated by white middle-class women. They argued that these organizations could not represent the needs of poor and black women effectively. They argued that the predominant feminist organizations catered for middle-class white women, and as such were dominated by…

Feminist ethics is attempt to revise or reconstruct traditional ethics so that it values women’s moral experiences, which discount the experiences and views of women in a way that invalidate these models. The female experiences is distinct and has a common thread with over half of the world’s population, making this field of ethics highly applicable. These subjects have been formally regarded as trivial subjects by traditional ethics, thereby implying that women are not as morally profound as…

viewed through a feminist lens because of love, wealth, different obstacles and being employed. “Feminist theory is the extension of feminism into theoretical or philosophical discourse. It aims to understand the nature of gender inequality. It examines women 's social roles, experience, interests, and feminist politics in a variety of fields, such as anthropology and sociology, communication, psychoanalysis, economics, literature, education, and philosophy.” (Wikipedia) Feminist theory…

Conflict theories are a set of theories were they argue basic values such as the role taking in functionalist theory. Conflict theory believes society is made up of competing groups with different interests. Conflict in this theory is the main ingredient for social order. There are four main parts of conflict theory: feminist theory, Marxist/socialist theory, critical race theory, and the intersectional theory. Feminist theory is the belief to aim to understand the nature of gender inequality…

feminists) view the oppression of women as part of a larger structure and call for the destruction of the present structure; liberal feminists are trying to find solutions within the existing structure for the gradual realization of reforms, drawing attention to the many different influences that contribute to the inequality between generations. Liberal feminism, socialist feminism and Marxist feminism; we do not come up with obvious approaches like the radical and cultural feminisms. These…