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  Cultural feminism - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Cultural feminism is the theory that there are fundamental personality and psychological differences between men and women, and that women's differences are not only unique, but superior.
Cultural feminism seeks to improve the relationship between the sexes and often cultures at large by celebrating women's special qualities, ways, and experiences, often believing that the "woman's way" is the better way, or that the culture discussed is overly masculine and requires balance from feminine perspectives.
Critics of cultural feminism, particularly those of the men's rights groups, assert that cultural feminism is misandric in nature, and also assert that there is no evidence to support that a woman's way is any better then a man's.
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 Feminism - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Feminism is a diverse collection of social theories, political movements, and moral philosophies, largely motivated by or concerning the experiences of women.
Feminism as a philosophy and movement in the modern sense is often dated to The Enlightenment with such thinkers as Lady Mary Wortley Montagu and the Marquis de Condorcet championing women's education.
Feminism has effected many changes in Western society, including women's suffrage; broad employment for women at more equitable wages; the right to initiate divorce proceedings and the introduction of "no fault" divorce; the right to obtain contraception and safe abortions; and the right to university education.
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 On the Impotence of Cultural Post-Feminism
In this passage it is clear that cultural feminism is as worried about its own "colonizing tendencies" as it is about the effects of patriarchy on "subaltern" groups of women, rendered mute, and unable to speak for themselves.
Cultural feminists move forward from this rhetoric of difference to the conclusion that non-Western cultures must be understood and respected as being essentially different from Western cultures.
It is to substitute a rhetoric of biological and cultural exclusion for a rhetoric of emancipation.
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 Problems of cultural feminism: feminism and consumerism
Cultural feminism shares with other utopian movements a critique of existing society as fundamentally flawed and the envisaging of a solution to transcend the flaw and reach a New World.
Although both the Nazis and the cultural feminists of the second wave, in their "reaction" against Enlightenment-rationalism, attack analyticism and exalt intuitiveness and an organic connection with the earth-environment, the former attack relativity as being too analytical and dead and the latter praise it as being precisely the anti-analytical model needed.
Cultural feminism therefore reinforces the expansion of consumerism -- and the destruction of the earth -- under the disguise of an earth-saving liberation of the oppressed.
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 Kinds of Feminism
Seen by many as the "undesirable" element of feminism, Radical feminism is actually the breeding ground for many of the ideas arising from feminism; ideas which get shaped and pounded out in various ways by other (but not all) branches of feminism.
Notions that women are "inherently kinder and gentler" are one of the foundations of cultural feminism, and remain a major part of it.
A similar concept held by some cultural feminists is that while various sex differences might not be biologically determined, they are still so thoroughly ingrained as to be intractable.
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 Jane Addams on Cultural Feminism   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
Addams was, and remains, one of the most articulate and sophisticated theorists of cultural feminism.
This cultural feminism permeated the settlement movement, and provided a system of values for organizing life in these communal homes.
Cultural feminism was an underlying theme in all of Addams' writings.
www2.pfeiffer.edu /~lridener/DSS/Addams/CULTFEM3.HTML   (1838 words)

  
 From cultural feminism to victim feminism
For the (cultural) feminists, women needed to reside separately from men and free from the latter's continual impingement in order to perfect their female culture just as "the Nordics needed room in which to develop their strength and leadership abilities." This has been remarked upon in the case of Margaret Fuller.
That the cultural feminism of the first wave bore such resemblance to Aryan racism at the time was simply, to put it another way, because people were products of their culture.
The cultural feminists' sense of superiority to and contempt for the world of course is less disgusting than that of the Puritans or the contemporary Evangelicals because, at least, their attitude is somewhat reactionary toward an actual oppression in the past.
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 USCCB - Against the Tide: Pro-Lifer as Feminist   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
According to cultural feminist accounts of a woman's subjectivity, women value intimacy, develop a capacity for nurturance and an ethic of care for the "other" with which we are connected, just as we learn to dread fear and separation from the other.
In contrast to cultural feminists, radical feminists deny that the nurturing and reproductive aspects of womanhood are a source of joy and celebration.
If our culture ostracizes the pregnant woman and the dependent unborn child to whom she is connected from the community in any measure, then it necessarily harms her.
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Since feminism itself resists all kinds of definitions by its very existence and aims, it is more accurate to say that there are all kinds of "flavors" and these flavors are mixed up every which way; there is no set of Baskin Robbins premixed flavors, as it were.
Amazon Feminism Amazon feminism is dedicated to the image of the female hero in fiction and in fact, as it is expressed in art and literature, in the physiques and feats of female athletes, and in sexual values and practices.
Amazon feminism is concerned about physical equality and is opposed to gender role stereotypes and discrimination against women based on assumptions that women are supposed to be, look or behave as if they are passive, weak and physically helpless.
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Their belief in the interrelatedness of culture and politics, and their willingness to merge the two, reflects a different reality than the one suggested by the polarized historiographical debate over cultural feminism and the nature of women's community.
Echols' belief that the rise of a seemingly apolitical cultural feminism marked the end of radical feminism's existence as a political movement is in fact complicated by the history of women's communities and their counter-institutions, many of which served political functions.
And second, for cultural feminists, the construction of this woman-identified sphere frequently served as a refuge, an endpoint, a goal in and of itself, rather than as a means for supplementing the struggle to engage with society and end patriarchal oppression.
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 Marxist / Materialist Feminism   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
Materialist Feminism is a "way of reading" that rejects the dominant pluralist paradigms and logics of contingency and seeks to establish the connections between the discursively constructed differentiated subjectivities that have replaced the generic "woman" in feminist theorizing, and the hierarchies of inequality that exploit and oppress women.
Materialist Feminism, as a reading practice, is also a way of explaining or re-writing and making sense of the world and, as such, influences reality through the knowledges it produces about the subject and her social context.
The authors differentiate materialist feminism from marxist feminism by indicating that it is the end result of several discourses (historical materialism, marxist and radical feminism, and postmodern and psychoanalytic theories of meaning and subjectivity) among which the postmodern input, in their view, is the source of its defining characteristics.
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 - Susan Stanford Friedman, Locational Feminism: Gender, Cultural Geographies, and Geopolitical Literacy
The feminism that mandates a quota of representation by lower caste women in village councils of rural India (reported in the New York Times, 3 May 1999) is not the same feminism as that which motivates those who demonstrate for reproductive choice outside a beleaguered abortion clinic in the United States.
Feminism is global in the sense that it emerges everywhere in indigenous forms that take shape through interactions with other feminisms and with its own local conditions.
The explosion of spatial rhetorics throughout many fields of cultural studies, including feminist studies, is part and parcel of the Global Age, a condition of postmodernity in which intensified multiculturalism and the migration of peoples, goods, and cultural practices, along with the invention of cyberspace, are transforming the modes of human thought and expression.
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The futility, and subsequent rubicon, of cultural cultural theory prevalent in is also evident in, although in a more mythopoetical sense.
Debord uses the term 'cultural libertarianism' to denote the genre, and eventually the genre, of precapitalist society.
The genre, and eventually the failure, of cultural capitalist theory which is a central theme of emerges again in, although in a more mythopoetical sense.
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 Cultural feminism compared
In a lecture titled, "Feminism and African Gender Formation," Oyewumi discussed gender formation and bridges between Western and Yoruban feminism with a mixed audience of University faculty and students.
Feminism is cross-cultural -- part of Western culture and structured by debates that lie within itself, Oyewumi said.
For example, feminism mainstreams the dominant, white, middle-class woman and is exclusionary to all other perspectives of women like the African American and international woman.
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 Realism and cultural feminism
But the main theme of la Fournier's critique of cultural feminism is the meaninglessness, and subsequent genre, of cultural narrativity.
But the premise of cultural feminism holds that narrativity is capable of social comment, given that consciousness is equal to language.
Debord uses the term 'cultural feminism' to denote the collapse, and thus the fatal flaw, of capitalist sexual identity.
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 Addams - Cultural Feminism   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
Many cultural feminists support their arguments by examining the behavior of women in both the distant past and the present.
A third major theorist of cultural feminism, Otis Tufton Mason, strongly influenced Addams' social thought and is discussed in the next section.
Pacifism was only one component in a complex set of assumptions made by cultural feminists, but its threat to patriarchal violence caused a savage response, and repression of this theory soon followed.
www2.pfeiffer.edu /~lridener/DSS/Addams/cultfem2.html   (448 words)

  
 soc.feminism Terminologies
It does not mean that feminism is fragmented (although it often seems that way!).
Radical feminist theory is to a large extent incompatible with cultural feminism.
Additionally, lesbian feminism may be considered a category distinct from separatist feminism.
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 Feminism and Cultural Texts
is devoted to issues of gender, culture, and writing by and about women in the nineteenth century.
studies, cultural studies), and explore emerging feminist critiques of race, ethnicity, class, sexuality, technology and nation.
The Canadian Women's Movement Archives is a valuable resource for the study of "second wave" feminism in Canada.
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