4.2 Feminism and Sexism

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In the National Social Survey (GSS), more than one third of the people agree with this statement. "If this person is a successful person outside the family and women take care of their families it will be better for all participants Family:" Are you for or against this statement? If you like most college students, you object

Today, many women and some men continue to add that they say "I am not a feminist ..." and are convinced of the equality of women and the role of gender in traditional ways. It actually belongs to the feminist framework. . They are hesitant to identify themselves as feminists and emphasize the negative image of feminists and feminists, suggesting that the actual meaning of feminism may be ambiguous.

Feminism and gender discrimination are usually both sides of the same coin. Feminism refers to the fact that women and men should have equal opportunities in economic, political and social life, gender discrimination is a stereotypical idea of traditional sexuality and male-female It refers to belief inherent in inequality. Therefore, gender discrimination resembles the concept of racial and ethnic prejudice as discussed in Chapter 3 "Racial and Ethnic Inequality". For biological and / or cultural reasons, women and people of color lack certain qualities that are successful in today's world.

Two feminist movements in American history greatly facilitated the cause of women's equality and changed their view on sex. At the beginning, it began in the era of abolitionism where the abolitionists such as Susan B. Anthony, Lucia Mort, Elizabeth Kaddy Stanton, and others began to find similarities between slavery and women's repression. . This new women's movement focuses on many issues, especially voting rights women acquired in 1920. The second important feminist movement began in the late 1960s as women active in the civil rights movement in the south pointed attention to the rights of women and are still active. This movement dramatically changed the public mind and socioeconomic system, but as you can see immediately, gender inequality still exists.

There are some feminism. They all have fundamental views that women and men should be equal in every aspect of life, but they differ in other respects (Hannam, 2012). Free feminism thinks that women's equality can be achieved in existing society through law and social reform, economic and political systems. On the contrary, socialist feminism says that capitalism can be attributed to women's inequality, and true gender equality can only be achieved if fundamental changes have been made in the social system and even the socialist revolution. On the other hand, radical radical feminism states that patriarchalism (male control) is the root of women's oppression and that women are being suppressed even in non-capitalist societies. They say that if a woman is equal to a man, patriarchalism itself must be abolished. Finally, multicultural feminism emphasizes that color women are suppressed not only by sex but also by race and class. Therefore, they face a triple burden beyond sex. Multicultural feminists, by focusing on ladies colored in the United States and other countries, living in these women, the lives of middle class women who historically led America's feminist movement, and many things It reminds us that it is very different.

It is said that there are various suppression in the map of the center of Europe. Unlike racial discrimination, gender discrimination intersects both. In case of opposing gender discrimination, race discrimination can not be ignored. (This is the source of interdisciplinary and third-wave feminism: people are angry with the second wave primarily for white women.) As an educator, theorists and organizers are involved in various kinds of our Increased awareness of oppression. The map is becoming increasingly complex. In many political places, I am increasing the list of questions "to educate ourselves more and more". First, I learned that patriarchal ties a conversation with a woman. Then I learned settlers - colonialism closed down indigenous peoples. Racism will shut down people who are not considered white people. Nationalism closed grandparents and foreigners of foreigners. Abramism will close off people who are different in ideas and actions that are generally "ordinary". Capitalism shuts down people who rely on labor rather than for livelihood.