Women & Gender Studies Test 1

Radical Feminism

Overthrowing the existing system and changing it from the root, changing institutional policy

Reformist Feminism,

Making changes through politics, getting equalit in the current system particularly in work

Contemporary Feminism,

Challenging sexism that women have (another woman criticizing a women for beign overweight or not wearing make)

Lifestyle feminism,

There are many ways that feminism can look slowly taking the politics out of it

Global Feminism,

 Transnational Feminism

Focuses on global south

Hwo women create space of empowerment in their communities

gender equality

Equal pay for equal work, nd men sharing house chores and parenting

systematic institutionalized sexism

conscious-raising groups,

Meetings where woman would talk about the collective experience of male dominatoin

revolutionary feminist conscious-raising groups

gender bias,

neo-colonial thinking,

Use of economical, political ad culture to control other countries, usually by their ex-colonizer

Indirect control

hegemony,

decolonized feminist perspective,

Looking at feminism that is not fro the perspective of your culture so thst you are not putting your ideas of whats right onto another country or another culture

Moving away from thinking there is one correct approach to feminism

Global South,

Global North,

Patriarchal Violence,

Feminization of Poverty

Peoep who are in poverty oare singel mothers with no jobs looking to be on welfare and government assitance