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US Third World Feminism Concepts

The document outlines five phases of feminist thought: 1. Liberal feminism argued that women are the same as men and sought equal rights. 2. Marxist feminism saw women as different from men and rejected male culture. 3. Third world feminism recognized differences among women based on race and culture. 4. Socialist feminism viewed women as a divided class based on race. 5. Differential oppositional consciousness recognized that movement between ideologies is necessary to enact difference and allow coalition building.

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US Third World Feminism Concepts

The document outlines five phases of feminist thought: 1. Liberal feminism argued that women are the same as men and sought equal rights. 2. Marxist feminism saw women as different from men and rejected male culture. 3. Third world feminism recognized differences among women based on race and culture. 4. Socialist feminism viewed women as a divided class based on race. 5. Differential oppositional consciousness recognized that movement between ideologies is necessary to enact difference and allow coalition building.

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HEGEMONIC FEMINISM

Feminine Consciousness (Showalter)

U.S. Third World Feminism

PHASE ONE:

Organized according to standards if the male public Liberal Feminism world (Green & Kahn) Jagger Women are the same as men. Typologies/Strategies (Sandoval)

Turn away from feminine phase, becomes feminist phase (Showalter)

Tactics

PHASE TWO: Marxist Feminism Jagger Transforming


values of patriarchal society Women are different than men (Sandoval)

Rejection of male culture (Showalter)

PHASE FIVE: Differential Oppositional Consciousness Sandoval


The movement between ideologies along with the concurrent desire for ideological commitment is necessary for enacting difference consciousness (Sandoval)

PHASE ONE: Equal Rights Sandoval


Subordinated groups says their inequalities are in only appearance, not reality. They posses an essence that is the same as the essence of those in power

Rejection of phases 1 and 2, as forms of dependency on men Female difference once seen as a source of oppression, now a source of enrichment

PHASE THREE: Racial/Culture Jagger


Women are superior to men. (Sandoval) Woman-centered, men became the other (Eisenstein)

PHASE TWO: Revolutionary Sandoval


Subordinated group claims differences from those in power and demand as shifting of paradigm that will accommodate/legitimate their differenceseek to affirm subordinated difference through a radical societal reformation

Women are the same as men. Sandoval

PHASE FOUR: Socialist Feminism


Women are a racially divided class. ( Sandoval) Ultimate/most appropriate theory, but has also made limited progress towards goals of developing and utilizing theories and methods (Jagger)

The inability to cope with protest of feminists of color suggest structural deficiency

PHASE THREE: Supermacism Sandoval


Subordinated group claims differences and claims that difference elevates them to a higher level of social/psychological existence than those currently in power

PHASE FOUR: Sepratism Sandoval


Subordinated group desires to protect and nurture its difference that define it through complete separation from dominant social orderbeckoned by a utopian landscape

Became forced to confront and debate issues of difference (Eisenstein)

Althussers theory of the Subject Position


Erin Bostwick Jahana Morehouse Janine Silvis CRGS 390: Concept Map US Third World Feminism (Sandoval)

Met with resistance with Women of Color U.S. Third World Feminism was only used as rhetoric with in hegemonic feminism (Radford Hill)

Allows practitioner to self consciously break and reform ties to ideology which is imperative for psychological and political practices to permit achievement of coalition

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