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What do you consider to be radical feminism?
I looked up a couple of definitions, and they all pretty much hold that radical feminism states that patriarchy is a form of oppression that cuts to the core of other oppressions.
I personally believe that sexism is the expression of an insitutionalized form of structural privilege that a person is immersed in when they move in our society. I believe that that structure needs to be problematized, along with a study of masculinity in order to accomplish the goal of situating how patriarchy functions, and what relation it is to other forms of oppression. I also beleive that, like identity, different forms of privilege and oppression overlap. I don't see that analytically removing sexist oppression from the rest of the framework necessarily provides us a look into the process of dominion.
I don't consider myself to be a radical feminist though. I have been exposed to these specific tenets at large in all of my gender studies classes. I cannot even see how mainstream feminism, defined more likely as egalitarian feminism, could even operate without admitting to a structural formation of sexist oppression. in such a case, the basic "personal is political" argument would be null and void.
I take **edited** the mainstream representation of radical feminism to be more of an anti-feminist construction more closely akin to feminazi, or militant feminism. What do you believe entails radical feminism?
I looked up a couple of definitions, and they all pretty much hold that radical feminism states that patriarchy is a form of oppression that cuts to the core of other oppressions.
I personally believe that sexism is the expression of an insitutionalized form of structural privilege that a person is immersed in when they move in our society. I believe that that structure needs to be problematized, along with a study of masculinity in order to accomplish the goal of situating how patriarchy functions, and what relation it is to other forms of oppression. I also beleive that, like identity, different forms of privilege and oppression overlap. I don't see that analytically removing sexist oppression from the rest of the framework necessarily provides us a look into the process of dominion.
I don't consider myself to be a radical feminist though. I have been exposed to these specific tenets at large in all of my gender studies classes. I cannot even see how mainstream feminism, defined more likely as egalitarian feminism, could even operate without admitting to a structural formation of sexist oppression. in such a case, the basic "personal is political" argument would be null and void.
I take **edited** the mainstream representation of radical feminism to be more of an anti-feminist construction more closely akin to feminazi, or militant feminism. What do you believe entails radical feminism?