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Liberal feminism "works within the structure of mainstream society to integrate women into that structure." [2] Liberal feminism places great emphasis on the public world, especially laws, political institutions, education and working life, and considers the denial of equal legal and political rights as the main obstacle to equality. As such ...
The Politics of Individualism: Liberalism, Liberal Feminism, and Anarchism is a 1993 political science book by L. Susan Brown. She begins by noting that liberalism and anarchism seem at times to share common components, but on other occasions are in direct opposition to one another. She argues that what they have in common is "existential ...
Patti Lather has taught qualitative research, feminist methodology, and gender and education at Ohio State University since 1988. She is a renowned feminist author with a total of four published books. Lather focuses on critical feminist issues and theories, and has recently started research on the relationship between feminism and education.
Equity feminism is a form of liberal feminism discussed since the 1980s, [138] [139] specifically a kind of classically liberal or libertarian feminism. [140] Steven Pinker , an evolutionary psychologist , defines equity feminism as "a moral doctrine about equal treatment that makes no commitments regarding open empirical issues in psychology ...
Bonnie Kreps, who wrote "Radical Feminism 1" which was published in 1973 in the anthology Radical Feminism: The Book portrayed Canadian feminists as falling into three categories: socialist feminists, who were opposed to capitalism; liberal feminists, who were concerned with equal rights and equal pay; and radical feminists who focused on "the ...
A liberal education is a system or course of education suitable for the cultivation of a free (Latin: liber) human being.It is based on the medieval concept of the liberal arts or, more commonly now, the liberalism of the Age of Enlightenment. [1]
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Liberal feminism argues that the central aims of liberal theory: freedom, equality, universal human rights and justice are also the proper aims of feminist theory. Its primary focus is to achieve gender equality through political and legal reform within the framework of liberal democracy .