1. Feminism
Dr. Christopher S. Rice

3. “Feminism is an entire world
view...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

8. 33% 25%

11. Americans still support
traditional feminist values…
• 53% of Americans supported affirmative
action programs for women.
• 87% favored “training courses or policies
that raise people’s awareness about fairness
in hiring women.”
• 71% favored hiring quotas for women.
• Irony: feminist ideals now so accepted that
they’re no longer associated with feminism.
“I’m not a feminist, but…”.

12. Americans still support
traditional feminist values…
• 53% of Americans supported affirmative
action programs for women.
• 87% favored “training courses or policies
that raise people’s awareness about fairness
in hiring women.”
• 71% favored hiring quotas for women.
• Irony: feminist ideals now so accepted that
they’re no longer associated with feminism.
“I’m not a feminist, but…”.

13. Americans still support
traditional feminist values…
• 53% of Americans supported affirmative
action programs for women.
• 87% favored “training courses or policies
that raise people’s awareness about fairness
in hiring women.”
• 71% favored hiring quotas for women.
• Irony: feminist ideals now so accepted that
they’re no longer associated with feminism.
“I’m not a feminist, but…”.

14. Americans still support
traditional feminist values…
• 53% of Americans supported affirmative
action programs for women.
• 87% favored “training courses or policies
that raise people’s awareness about fairness
in hiring women.”
• 71% favored hiring quotas for women.
• Irony: feminist ideals now so accepted that
they’re no longer associated with feminism.
“I’m not a feminist, but…”.

15. First Wave Feminism

19. The Struggle for Suffrage

21. Second Wave Feminism

22. 3

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?