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14 Nov 09

InfoSexoWeb -- Thèse

  • Déscarries-Bélanger et Roy croient que le consensus se maintiendrait autour de l'oppression des femmes, c'est-à-dire sur la croyance en l'inégalité dans les rapports de pouvoir et sur une tentative à expliquer comment et pourquoi perdurerait l'intériorisation, par les deux sexes, de l'idéologie sexiste.
  • De leur côté, Déscarries-Bélanger et Roy visaient à démontrer par leur classification, la diversité et la complexité des débats qui auraient traversé et traverseraient encore le mouvement des femmes, et de les situer dans leur environnement théorique.
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ASSÉ » Documents » Femmes et féminismes

  • Selon le féminisme égalitaire, la principale source de conflit entre les sexes est socioculturelle et viendrait des rôles socialement imposés par la division sexuelle du travail. C’est pourquoi ce courant revendique l’égalité de droit et de fait pour les femmes c’est-à-dire un accès égal à l’éducation, aux sphères du pouvoir économique et politique, à l’emploi, à toutes les ressources sociales, économiques et politiques, au contrôle du corps et de la reproduction, etc. Bref, les féministes égalitaires dénoncent l’iniquité salariale, les ghettos d’emplois féminins (infirmières, enseignantes, éducatrices, etc.) et favorisent les mesures de discrimination positive. Enfin, ce qu’elles préconisent d’abord et avant tout comme outil de changement social c’est l’éducation et la socialisation des jeunes filles.
  • Le féminisme égalitaire, ou libéral, ou réformiste est en quelque sorte le premier type de féminisme de l’histoire. Les premiers mouvements organisés tels que les suffragettes, et les groupes de pression pour les réformes légales (droit au travail libre, droit au salaire, droit d’être une personne civile à part entière, etc.) faisaient partie de cette catégorie.
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Naomi Wolf on Helen Gurley Brown - The Pursuit of Harpyness

  • The fact is, we know the answers to Western women’s problems: The way is mapped out, the time for theory is pretty much over. We know the laws and the policies we need to achieve full equality. What we lack is a grass-roots movement that will drive the political will. “Lipstick” or lifestyle feminism won’t produce that movement alone.
  • I don’t buy that turning so-called feminists “cheerful, self-empowered individualists” is a particularly laudable accomplishment either. As Wolf points out,taking the anger out of feminism and replacing it with “cheerfulness” fragments the greatest thing that first wave feminism had working for it: collective drive.
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Parsing the Drunken Jezebel Trainwreck | Video | AlterNet

  • Look, I can tell when watching it that what’s going on is two women who are at odds with a hipster culture that plays at men and women being equals, but still makes women tap dance and submit like performing monkeys begging for cookies.  The jokes about pulling out?  The denial (from Tracie) and joking around (Moe) about rape?  These were all coming from that place that I know so well.  It reminds me of the jokes that women back home would make about living under their male lords and masters, though those jokes were often more about housekeeping and more mundane sexual topics.  There’s a tendency, when one thinks of one’s self as a spicy and bold woman, to exhibit a lot of bravado when you have to reconcile that with the ugly fact that dudes are pushing you around.  If you’ve ever seen a cat lose its cool, you know what I mean.  Like it falls in the toilet while trying to drink from it, and walks away sopping wet like, “Yeah, I meant to do that.” Letting a guy come in you without a condom because he whined and you wanted him to like you is a lot like that, I guess.  You say, “Oh, I meant to do that.  It was sexier.  Yeah.  For me.  Really.  Ha.” Women make excuses for bending to their own oppression all the time.  I’ve done it.  We all do it.  And sometimes we make really dark jokes about it, as Moe and Tracie did. 
  • It’s never as easy as it sounds to just liberate yourself is all I’m saying.  I’m often asked when I speak in public why young women don’t call themselves feminists that much. And I say honestly, young straight women are afraid that they’ll never get laid again, that their fragile dependence on men’s good will is threatened by the word “feminism”.

Katha Pollitt says women are still the second sex.

  • And yet, women are still the second sex, pushed and pulled in dozens of ways into leading the lesser life and left to wonder how that happened. The media has lots of time to make feminists look ridiculous—because of course the most important quality in a social-justice movement is whether its members have a sense of humor and a closetful of great outfits!
  • But it has much less time to analyze the social structures that keep women in their place, whether it's the glass ceiling, the tolerance of rape and domestic violence, the quest for the perfect ultra-thin, large-breasted body that almost nobody actually possesses, or the many holes in our web of laws and regulations that leave women mostly unprotected against exploitation and discrimination in the workplace. Not to mention the subtler ways that women are marginalized at work and nudged into doing the lioness' share at home. Somehow, everything we know about sociology goes out the window when we talk about women and men: Instead, we act as if people just mysteriously make "choices." All of which are good!
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