Chodorow

•     “Oedipal Complex”
• ·       Women’s apparent romanticism is an emotional and ideological response to their very real economic dependence
• ·       It seems psychologically logical to a woman to turn her marriage into a family, by recreating herself an exclusive intense primary unit

Barrett

• ·       Argued that it is inadequate to attempt to grasp the character of women’s oppression in contemporary capitalism in terms of the supposed needs of capitalism itself

• ·       Advocates a new economy (women engaging in a paid labor force)

Irigaray

• ·       Women cannot be singular (linear) because they fail to be centralized to on element
• ·       Her sexuality is plural (women have sex organs just about everywhere)

Rubin

• ·       Kinship, referred to as a “rip-off”
• ·       “exchange of women” a seductive & powerful concept; it is attractive in that it places the oppression of women within social systems, rather than in biology
• ·       Kinship is the culturalization of biological sexuality on the societal level

Engels

• ·       Monogamy: side effect includes the fact that the man will emerge as the bourgeoisie, whereas the woman serves as the proletariat 

Wittig

• ·       Basis of women’s oppression is biological as well as historical
• ·       “natural group” – a racial group of a special kind
• ·       oppression is a consequence of this “nature”
• ·       feminine is a creature between male and eunuch produced by civilization 

Hegel

• ·       Father of existentialism; Marxism & Freudianism
• ·       Zeit geist- “ghost/spirit of times”
• ·       Dialectic thinking v. binary thinking
• ·       Existentialism: existence precedes essence – dialectic, not binary
• ·       Ambiguous return to self 

Hartmann

·       Capitalism draws women in the labor force

Hammonds

·       The means of which black women figure in some discusses has remained unanalyzed and unauthorized

Beauvoir

·       First to emphasize studies in feminism

·       Argued that women do not authentically subjectify themselves enough

·       Thesis: self, being in itself—> antithesis: no consciousness

·       No community=no identity

·       The other and the supreme must be in a cycle together

Gilligan

·       Woman’s place is to protect this recognition while the development litany intones; the celebration of separation, autonomy, individualism & natural rights

·       Freud “which brings about so great an accession of libido in boys, is marked in girls by a fresh wave of repression necessary for the transformation”