Women and Human Rights- Lecture 8 and 9.docx - Women and...

Women and Human Rights- Lecture 8 (11/09/2022)
Radical Feminism cont’
 Law & State- Male protection rackets
 Separatism and women-centred alternatives- key to women’s liberation
 Patriarchy- understanding #2- based on anti-essentialism and
intersectionality
- Women experience male oppression differently based on social
location/context
Criticisms (liberal and radical feminism)
 Abstract concepts (state/law) are reified (things are given status as actors
with intent)
 Essentialist
 Socialist Feminism
- influenced by Marx
- Historicizes gender inequality
- Law- hegemonic process
- Women’s inequality premised on gender subordination in both public and
private spheres and social class
- Women’s work is undervalued both in the private and public sphere
- Norms of nuclear family is ideological ; (unnatural, politics)
- Parisi- public private split “rests on fundamentally different conceptions
of citizenship for men and women”
 Anti-racist feminism
- Kimberle Crenshaw: Intersectionality
- Whiteness of liberal, radical, social feminisms
- Parisi- gender and cultural essentialism
- Intersectionality and essentialism; (explodes category women)
 Feminist Principles of Human Rights