Using the notes Write a well-argued essay on How does the account of ideology developed in this course help your understanding of feminism?How does the account of ideology developed in this course help your understanding of feminism? :
➔ Mansfield- book on feminism
➔ The problem between convention and nature
➔ Racist questions like our differences or distinguishes between women and men
conventional or natural
➔ Meghan Murphy’s argument is that if you are male you are male
➔ Transgendered individuals may poss a threat to feminism according to Meghan
➔ Most people who look at feminism see it as a way of considering the social reality
➔ Murphy thinks the trans community in Toronto are silencing free speech
➔ October 16th 2020 concerned woman of America
➔ In international Olympics community has a rule that males who identify as women can
participate in the female games as long as they lower there (something in their body that
makes them stronger then women) allowing trans women to play with women causes a
disadvantage to women.
➔ Snow white- the brothers Grim, the worst thing about the story is that she is found by a
man and the man kisses her, this to some feminists is a form of sexual assault
➔ Suffragettes, concerned with women suffrage
➔ Social oppression is always there, lots of injustice in the world and always lots to criticize
➔ Women should be able to vote and don’t need permission from men
➔ Simone de Beauvoir
➢ Second-wave feminism
➢ “One is not born, but rather becomes, a woman” most famous words of the book,
it means the difference between gender and sex, but for the author, it’s not that
simple, the historical becoming from a girl to a woman is based on natural
becoming how are we to distinguish the two,
➢ Natural women and “transcendents” man
➔ Betty Frieden, The Feminine Mystique
➢ Mrs Charles Johnson
➢ What’s her problem?
➔ Helen Gurley Brown, Sex and Single Girl
➔ 1930- women were legal persons
➔ In the case of “The famous five blonds”, women were made persons and could be
appointed to the senate
➔ Le Deuxiem Sexe- historians in feminism said this anogarated the second wave, she
wrote this book as a complaint against male domination, gender roles and motherhood
as well. Volume 1 is called Facts and myths. Her book is called the second sex not the
second gender, it is said that if you are born a girl that’s the only way to become a
woman, the born part of the phrase is natural but becoming a woman is not.
➔ History explains why women are in the place they are, the main reason is motherhood,
men dominate nature and women are simply natural occurrences and so men dominate
them as part of dominating nature, women are imminent to nature but men can
transcend nature, men oppress women by perpetuating a family as a natural thing
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➔ Part three deals with myths, the mysteriousness of women is also a form of their
oppression
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➔ The second wave was more direct in identifying social restrains not political issues
➔ Today in Alberta are different conventions, and we prefer our own conventions because
we think they are more just
➔ Feminism as an ideology we face different questions
➔ Girls get to play with dolls to teach them to be moms- Madam Beauvoir
➔ Lesbianism is presented as a forbidden path- Madame Beauvoir
➔ Married women provide services to men, housekeeping holds away death but also
disappoints life, marriage almost destroys women
➔ Being a mother, most of it is not about children, it’s about avoiding women, abortion is
not about morality but about masculine sanism
➔ Pregnancy shows a further loss for women, adultery is a divergence between marriage
➔ Women’s handy work suitable for empty minds she says
➔ Women raised and educated exactly like men, would work and be paid as much as men,
birth control and abortion would be allowed, maternity leave would be paid for by the
society, which does not mean they would be taken from their parents
➔ To succeed in this victory men and women must among other things unaprsetly turn to
their brotherhood ?????
➔ 1950s texts, Betty Fernan, controversial, one of the harmful books of the 20th century
➔ Dramatic stories about how it was like to be a housewife in the 50s, women are
constrained by social expectations, sometimes they internalize these femininities making
trouble for them
➔ During the 1950s suburban housewives led lives of desperation and were made to feel
guilty about it
➔ “I just want to take care of the family and the children”,
➔ Lazy sexually emit
➔ Oppressed, 90% said they had it easier than their parents, 60% said they had a happy
marriage, women knew what they were here for they didn’t have to search for a purpose
in life,
➔ It takes more than motherhood to make a woman happy they need a man, being
subordenint to men is part of being women
➔ Women don’t need that much praise anyway, they expect much from life, she is here as
a keeper of her husband and her children, and women were happy with this
➔ Betty said that millions of housewives were desperately unhappy
➔ Women could not have a property it belonged to the husband, and if the husband had a
job the wife moved with him or she was going against the law
➔ Women who didn’t take the names of their husbands could have their license provoked
➔ Air hostesses couldn’t work without their husband’s permission and were not allowed to
work with kids
➔ Women at home were either unhappy or oblivious
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➔ The only way for a woman to find herself as a person must be able to work equal to their
actual audacity and educational training, women who don’t condemn themselves from a
future. A waitress for example was not a job fitting these criteria
➔ Brown said marriage is not the best year of your life but insurance for the worst year of
your life, girls needs men but there are a lot of men around
➔ Brown thought that girls needed a job
➔ Brown said that use your sexual benefits to gain materialistic things, make men pay men
for everything, use your feminity to manipulate men into giving you promotions and other
good things
➔ The political expression of manliness is volunteer, like Kyal who volunteered to go into a
dramatic situation
➔ Volunteers think to see how they can make things better and choose to do what they can
➔ Being a volunteer is not a duty, the only reason to become a volunteer is to be one, to
take responsibility, which means there is something aggressive
➔ Manliness gets in the way of equal distribution of tasks and promotions because it is
irrational as it promotes men over women
➔ Scientific studies for manliness, because these studies show aggression and not
manliness
➔ Most scientific studies of manliness talk about aggression only
➔ Speech and action are connected and have been for a long time
➔ Risk their lives to save their lives- manliness
➔ Common sense, science, literature and then philosophy- the book manliness
➔ Andria is the Greek word for courage women can be as courageous as men, it is a virtue
to challenge political correctness and ideologies
➔ What are gentlemen, a man who is by habit and character gentle not forced to be gentle,
men don’t post about being gentleman, they don’t say look at me I’m a gentleman
➔ Winning dishonourably is better than losing honourably- TRUMP
➔ Mansfield and nothing good to say about Donald Trump
➔ Volunteering is a kind of pride that when people aren’t doing shit they say I’m gonna take
charge, often involves swearing,