Presentation prepared for a series of lectures on Feminism for PS 240 Introduction to Political Theory at the University of Kentucky, Spring 2007. Dr. Christopher S. Rice, Instructor.

1. Feminism Dr. Christopher S. Rice

3. “ Feminism is an entire world view of gestalt, not just a laundry list of women’s issues.” Charlotte Bunch

4. “ The true Republic: men, their rights and nothing more; women, their rights and nothing less.” Susan B. Anthony

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15. First Wave Feminism

19. The Struggle for Suffrage

21. Second Wave Feminism

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23. Commission on the Status of Women created in 1961 by JFK to report on the status of women in America, in all 50 states.

24. Title VII of the 1964 Civil Rights Act prohibited sexual discrimination in employment and the EEOC was charged with enforcing this.

25. Betty Friedan published The Feminine Mystique.

28. Power Feminism a conservative feminism, resembling many of Phyllis Schlafly’s arguments vs. liberal feminism (which holds that liberal feminism portrays women as the innocent victims of male desire).

29. Lifestyle Feminism An effort to reclaim femininity as “girl power”, portraying the sexualized female not as the image of male desire but as a liberating image of femininity.

30. Problems with Second Wave Feminism

31. Postfeminism?

32. Third Wave Feminism

33. Fall of the USSR

35. Third Wave Feminism vs. Second Wave Feminism

36. Basic Idea: To re-invigorate feminist politics, to overcome a sentiment of postfeminism, by reconceptualizing feminism within a new global/local politics.

37. Types of Feminists

38. Liberal Feminists

39. Equal Rights

40. Legal Reforms Elections Change

41. “ The Problem With No Name”

43. False Universalism: Just Like Men???

44. Is liberal feminism too white, middle-class, heterosexual?

45. Radical Feminists

46. A little bit anarchist, a little bit Marxist…

48. Women’s oppression historical , not natural

49. Modes of Production & Matrilineal societies

50. Marriage is a Bad Deal

51. The wife differs from the prostitute only in that “she does not hire out her body like a wageworker, on piecework, but sells it into slavery once and for all.” Friedrich Engels

52. Does liberal feminism begin to look a little ridiculous?

53. PROBLEMS

54. Postmodern Feminists

55. deconstruction

56. The problem of objectivity

57. Essentialism

58. “ Woman” as a Strategic Concept?

62. The Problem of Political Resistance

63. “ Strategic Essentialism”

64. Discussion