Sociological Theory - Feminism (Sociology Theory & Methods)

This video provides an essential overview for A-Level Sociology students of the theory of Feminism.

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VIDEO CHAPTERS
0:00 Introduction
0:09 Key concepts
1:19 Waves of Feminism
3:16 Liberal Feminism
4:27 Marxist Feminism
5:54 Radical Feminism
7:21 Feminist methodology
8:23 Evaluations
9:30 Contributions of Feminism

Feminism is a key sociological theory. All feminists argue that society is patriarchal (male-dominated) but they disagree about the extent of this today, the causes of it and the solutions.

Feminist can be categorised into:

Liberal feminists - whose views of feminism focus on legal equality between the sexes: equal rights. Since women got the vote, the Equal Pay Act, the Sex Discrimination Act and various other advances, their battle is largely won. However, concern remains about the gender pay gap, “glass ceiling” and situations in other countries.

Radical feminists - who see patriarchy as inherent in all social structures: it needs radical change, not just legal change. Some radical feminists favour separatism; they believe relationships between men and women cannot be equal because of the threat of violence.

Marxist feminists - who believe women are oppressed by patriarchy and capitalism. Gender and class are equally important.

Difference feminists - who believe women are oppressed by patriarchy, capitalism and racism. “Intersectionality”.

Postmodern feminists: see femininity is an identity of choice which can be celebrated, rather than rejected.

[tholar]

Some of these comments show why feminism is necessary.

[oliviar]

Great video! However, I'd suggest you choose your wording more carefully about what kinds of women were granted different forms of rights and liberations. Not all women gained the right to vote in 1928. It was white, particularly well off women who were granted the right to vote. Just something to keep in mind !

[naziramuhamadfauzi]

I am privileged with living with good men. They treated me and female family members right. So, I don't really care about feminism theory and why it existed in the first place. However, I started to listen to some of their movement since I encountered cases of poorly treated daughters, wives & female employers. And today, I am delving in deeper into the theory because of Literary Studies. It is good to know that feminism is not all about negativity as it has been stereotyping in the media. Because there are ridiculous demands that made feminism look bad.

[larryk]

I just found out that I'm a Marxist Feminist

[abhishekchatterjee]

Feminism is good, feminism is necessary. It is needed.

[ms.antithesis]

this channel's video's are generally useful and unbiased and im sure this video's intent to be unbiased too but i can't help but feel your only mention of trans issues, except to frame them as an ideological difference and not a core part of modern feminist issues is pretty reductionist even for over 4 years ago.

In an era where people who where 5-6 years ago openly on the anti-feminist conservative right rallying around to spread bigotry against transgender woman, and queergendered people in general, describing those people as a branch of feminist could be argued to be outright harmful, intentional or otherwise.

I understand the desire to remain neutral for the sake of educational professionalism but I hope you can understand how it may seem harmful to position this as a balanced ideological debate, and not, as I hope the last half decade has revealed, a campaign of reactionary fearmongering against the identity of other identities that's actively impeding the march towards gender equality.

[rairetv]

how would liberal feminism approach to sexual assault then? how would they explain this issue? and how is it different to critical masculinities theory?

[fefifofob]

All I have to do is memorize a bunch of redefined words.

[kwamebarning]

I'm surprised you didn't mention intersectional feminism

[ccchai]

1. Feminism is brought by the education progress, openness of ideology, and, of course, the objective injustice existing between men and women in job, wealth and power.
2. The real feminism ‌never mean‌s ‌man-hating‌. Feminism is the belief in the economic, social and political equality between sexes, which aims to stop stereotypes and injustice on the female group.
3. Gender equality is not contradictory with the feminism. The female group is the disadvantaged one in almost every country in the world (just different by degree), and if we abandon the word of "feminism" and just use slogans like "rights equity", the
real aspect of the issue will be avoided.

4. Feminism should not be stopped by boundaries or culture, in fact it's about humanity and rights, please not trying to persuade feminist with cultural differences or nationalism. Just excuses.

[understandingthenews]

Very nice and solid overview, thanks for uploading useful content. Sad that many people comment without listening to the video and just resharing silly, bad quality second hand opinions of politically motivated pundits.

[rianpark]

Can you make these videos for Beliefs in Society as well?

[cate]

While these theories are useful, I believe that they miss the overall--that is that all feminisms exist because of the ubiquitous system of patriarchy, within which all women worldwide not only live but whose very existence is defined-by. According to the late historian, Dr. Gerda Lerner, patriarchy is defined as: "...the manifestation and institutionalization of male dominance over women in society in general. It implies that men hold power in all the important institutions of society and that women are deprived of access to such power. It does NOT (emphasis in original) imply that women are either totally powerless or totally deprived of rights, influence, and resources..." (source: "The Creation of Patriarchy, " Gerda Lerner, New York, Oxford University Press, 1986). In other words, the very society in which women are born & live & have their lives was put together by men with male advantage as the foremost goal--especially at the expense of female freedom to define & invent their own systems in which to live.

[ljkdsss]

Can someone help me, what is the definition of Marxism Feminism? Just for our assignment,

[janakojha]

hey man, you didn't mention the Ecofeminism, Psychoanalytic feminism

[animethics]

Wow this is a great video! 👍, The best part is we are on the similar niche 🤝😊.

[starboivids]

Hey, what about black feminists and difference feminists?

[cate]

Oh dear: wait a minute--the "first wave" of feminism in the United States was focused primarily on the Woman Suffrage Movement--the right of women to vote in America culminating in passage of the Nineteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution IN 1920, not 1928--if that's the reference the lecturer is referring to.

[raffiboy]

is this the *Socialisation, identity and methods of research* catagory ?

[Dave-wuir]

99.7% of all wartime deaths are men
94% of all workplace deaths are
74% of all divorced men have less than 50% custody of their children