| What is feminism? | the advocacy of women's rights on the ground of the equality of the sexes. |
| what are the two main strands of feminism? | Equality feminism and difference feminism |
| What is equality feminism? | a strand of feminism that seeks to create equality for men and women and create a gender blind world |
| What is difference feminism? | a strand of feminism that believed there are intrinsic differences between men and women such as women being more caring etc and therefore they shouldn’t take on male characteristics such as aggression or greed. |
| What is the key disagreement between equality and difference feminists? | their view on sex and gender and how intertwined they are. |
| What doe equality feminists believe about sex and gender? | believe that gender roles are created, not innate |
| What do difference feminists believe about sex and gender? | men cannot be reformed and their human nature is predisposed to dominance over women |
| How do difference and equality feminism differ on their views of sex and gender? | Equality feminists views things such as femininity and masculinity as attributes of social conditioning whereas difference feminism views it as innate features of men and women on the same level as biological differences. |
| What group makes up most of the equality feminism? | liberal feminists |
| What group makes up most of difference feminism? | radical feminists |
| Key quote by Simone de Beauvoir? | "society, being codified by man, decrees that woman is inferior; she can do away with this inferiority only by destroying the male's superiority" |
| Key quote by Dr Helena Cronin? | “men are by nature more competitive, ambitious, status-conscious, dedicated, single-minded and persevering than women” |
