Types of Feminism and Their Impact on Society

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Sociology
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King, D. K. (2016). Multiple jeopardy, multiple consciousness: The context of a Black feminist
ideology. In Race, gender and class, 36-57. Retrieved from:
https://cleisabeni.com/uploads/6/0/4/7/60470251/multiplejeopardymultipleconsciousness.
pdf
The article has pointed out the discrimination as well as the demargnalization of the
intersection of sex and race. The focus of the assignment is on the discrimination that is
faced by coloured women on the basis of their skin along with being a female (King,
2016). The author has pointed out that women who are not coloured are less likely to face
discrimination in both professional as well as personal life. The dual as well as
systematic discriminations of sexism and sexism remain pervasive, and, for several
individual classes inequality compounds those oppressions. This article is highly relevant
to my topic feminism since black feminist theory is a major part of the mentioned topic.
Policastro, C. (2015). Feminist Theory. The Encyclopedia of Crime and Punishment, 1-5.doi:
10.1002/9781118519639.wbecpx082
This article has described the origin of the feminist theory as well as its impact on the
society. The author of the article has pointed out that the chief aim of the mentioned
theory is to draw attention to the discrimination of between the male and female gender
that takes place in the society through differential socialization (Policastro, 2015). The
feminist theory argues that the gender system is a method of social stratification where
occupations, attributes as well as roles associated with the female are afforded less value
compare to the same associated with the male gender.

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The article is highly useful for my research since it will provide me with information
about the different perspectives associated with the feminist theory. This article will also
help me to access the misperceptions associated with the mentioned theory along with
providing me with brief knowledge about the chief five schools of thought associated
with the feminist theory that includes Marxist feminism, socialist feminism, radical
feminism as well as modern feminism.
Wilson, K. (2015). Towards a radical re‐appropriation: Gender, development and neoliberal
feminism. Development and Change, 46(4), 803-832. doi: 10.1111/dech.12176
The mentioned article pointed out the importance of gender equality in order to increase
productivity, improve the development outcomes for future generation (Wilson, 2015).
The article argues that the approaches taken for instrumentalizing gender equality within
the neoliberal development frameworks is in fact resulting in deepening of the gendered
inequalities in order to sustain as well as strengthen the process of global capital
accumulation in a varied number of ways.
Considering the fact that neoliberal feminism is a major part of the feminist theory, the
chosen article has high relevancy with my topic. The article is useful for this research
since it explored through development discourses as well as practices associated with
microfinance , adolescent girls s well as reproductive rights.
Beegan, R., & Moran, J. (2017). Prostitution and sex work: Situating Ireland’s new law on
prostitution in the radical and liberal feminist paradigms. Irish Journal of Applied Social
Studies, 17(1), 6.doi: 10.21427/D7BQ6T

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In the mentioned article, the authors have discussed the two specific dominant feminist
positions namely, the liberal feminism and the radical feminism along with reviewing
their differing perspectives that are specially influential in the Irish prostitution as well as
sex trafficking. Along with this, the article also contains a brief outline of the recent
legislation of the Irish government on prostitution in the context of the Nordic model
(Beegan & Moran, (2017). From the research, it has been found that being a male
dominated industry, normalizing prostitution through legalisation as well as
decriminalisation regimes creates men’s sense of entitlement to own or gain access to a
woman’s body through force or payment.
The article is highly usefully for my research since it helps me understand the perspective
of both radical as well as liberal feminism on prostitution. According to the radical
feminist theory, it is crucial to confront prostitution as a condition of gendered
oppression. However, in the view point of the liberal feminism, prostitution is a
legitimate work and an expression of agency and choice.
Hartmann, H. I. (1979). The unhappy marriage of Marxism and feminism: Towards a more
progressive union. Capital & Class, 3(2), 1-33. Retrieved from:
https://web.ics.purdue.edu/~hoganr/SOC%20602/Hartmann_1979.pdf
This paper argues with that a good number difference as well as discrepancies exists
between Marxism as well as feminism (Hartmann, 1979). The author pointed out of the
fact that in spite of the fact that both Marxism as well as feminist theories are needed to
understand the capitalist society and the position of women in the same, feminism has
always been subordinated.