3b. Key Ideas and Concepts
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27th July 2018
Key Ideas and Concepts
| Concept | Definition |
| The area in society where relationships are public, specifically life outside the home, particularly society and work. | |
| The area in society where relationships are seen as private, specifically home and domestic life. | |
| The belief that biological factors are significant in the different character and behaviour of men and women. | |
| The different way society expects men and women to behave according to gender roles. | |
| Less favourable treatment of one group of people compared to other groups. | |
| All humans, irrespective of sex, should have an equal chance in society to rise and fall. | |
| Equal right to vote, one person one vote, equal right to protest | |
| That the law applies equally to all and that no one is above the law. | |
| The idea that women constitute a spare workforce that can be called on as and when needed. | |
| The idea that society should treat everyone the same, irrespective of their gender. | |
| A form of difference feminism that seeks to challenge the dominance of male culture in society, instead seeking to promote ‘women’s values’. | |
| Seeking to change society gradually and peacefully. | |
| The idea that women were considered to be fundamentally different from men, who were seen as the ‘norm’ and women, deviants from this norm. | |
| Feminists who argue that men and women are fundamentally different from one another. | |
| An idea that challenged the notion that ‘gender’ was the singular factor in determining a woman’s fate, arguing that black and working class women’s experiences of patriarchy are different from that of white, middle-class women. |
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