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	Feminist Issues in Prostitution
		Radical feminism opposes prostitution on the grounds that it degrades women and furthers the power politics of the male gender.
		This is necessary because feminism is vibrant and changing, particularly in the case of radical feminism and liberal feminism, which either reinvent themselves or transform with time.
		Radicals and liberals, however, are divided about the role of prostitution, seeing it in a range of perspectives from that of an ordinary business transaction to an activity that degrades all women.
	www.feministissues.com (4001 words)

	Radical feminism - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Radical feminism is a branch of feminism that views women's oppression (which radical feminists refer to as "Patriarchy") as the basic system of power upon which human relationships in society are arranged.
		Radical feminists in Western society believe that their society is an oppressive patriarchy that primarily oppresses women.
		This feminism was truly radical in both a political sense, and in the sense of seeking the root cause of the oppression of women.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Radical_feminism (2013 words)

	RADICAL FEMINISM (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Radical feminism is relatively recent and differs from traditional Marxism in arguing that women's oppression is historically primary, harder to transform, causes more harm and is more widespread than class oppression.
		The paper concludes that radical feminist textuality is a discourse of the moment; with its emphasis on both the personal and the political, the text and the network, it forms a particularly telling example of writerly subjectivity, mediating between the worlds of gender politics and print culture to change (and yet resist) both.
		Feminism, I shall argue, is both multiple and singular, since 'liberal', 'socialist' and 'radical' feminisms are distinctive feminisms that can and should be assessed according to the extent to which they contribute positively to the development of a post-patriarchal society.
	sociologyindex.com /radical_feminism.htm (1068 words)

	Lesbianism and Feminism by Anne Koedt
		Basic go this position of radical feminism is the concept that biology is not destiny, and that male and female roles are learned—indeed that they are male political constructs than serve to ensure power and superior status for men.
		But a radical feminist is not just one who tries to live the good non-sexist life at home; she is one who is working politically in society to destroy the institutions of sexism.
		For not only is the sex of a woman’s lover insufficient information to infer radical feminism, but there is also the false implication that to have no men in your personal life means you are therefore living the life of fighting for radical feminist change.
	www.cwluherstory.com /CWLUArchive/lesbianfeminism.html (3912 words)

	Kinds of Feminism
		Seen by many as the "undesirable" element of feminism, Radical feminism is actually the breeding ground for many of the ideas arising from feminism; ideas which get shaped and pounded out in various ways by other (but not all) branches of feminism.
		Radical feminism was the cutting edge of feminist theory from approximately 1967-1975.
		The reason this group gets the "radical" label is that they view the oppression of women as the most fundamental form of oppression, one that cuts across boundaries of race, culture, and economic class.
	www.uah.edu /woolf/feminism_kinds.htm (1283 words)

	The Dissident Feminist: Schools of Feminist Thought
		Amazon feminism is dedicated to the image of the female hero in fiction and in fact, as it is expressed in art and literature, in the physiques and feats of female athletes, and in sexual values and practices.
		Radical feminism attempts to draw lines between biologically- determined behavior and culturally-determined behavior in order to free both men and women as much as possible from their previous narrow gender roles.
		Radical feminist theory is to a large extent incompatible with cultural feminism.
	sapphireblue.com /dissident_feminist/factions.shtml (3119 words)

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		Historically, radical feminism started with the assumption that the sexes are adversarially poised, that men have power over women, and that society and its various social relationships can be best understood in terms of their relationship to that situation (Eisenstein 1983).
		Both Marxism and radical feminism identify, as the weak point in the systems of oppression that they speak of, the fact that the oppressor's success depends on not having to perpetually resort to violent force at every turn in order to subdue the oppressed (Marx 1844; Hanisch 1970).
		Analytically, radical feminism can be distinguished from feminism that is not called "radical" according to the degree to which this particular power struggle and situation--patriarchy, the rule by men, in which women are the oppressed category--is understood to be the root of all further inequalities, oppressions, and injustices.
	home.earthlink.net /~ahunter/RFvSoc/conflict.html (1470 words)

	Radical/Cultural Feminism and Psychoanalytic Feminism
		Radical feminism is an approach to feminist thinking and action which maintains that the sex/gender system is the fundamental cause of women's oppression.
		These radical feminists rejected androgyny as a desirable goal, replacing it with a proposal to embrace women's essential "femaleness." Instead of believing liberated women must exhibit both masculine and feminine traits and behavior, these radical-cultural feminists expressed the view that it is better to be female/feminine that it is to be male/masculine.
		Radical feminists fall into the trap of essentialism, the conviction that men are men and women are women and that there is no way to change either's nature.
	www.chungnam.ac.kr /~sunjung/ff-part2-introduction.htm (2344 words)

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		The radical feminists were not deterred by the failures of classic Marxism or the failures of Communist states.
		Radical feminists are firmly entrenched in the universities, in the media and now in the government.
		The radical feminists have collaborated with sexual liberationists, with populationists, with haters of religion, political liberals.
	www.ewtn.com /library/ISSUES/FEMINISM.TXT (3814 words)

	EVE ONLINE \| Feminism
		Radical Feminism: sees male supremacism (patriarchy) as the root of societal ills; strong focus on the politics of biology.
		One version of radical feminism is political, rationalist, and theoretical; feels women's biology (birthing, menstruation, etc.) under patriarchy limits women's access to and power in the public sphere; rejects viewing women as closer to nature.
		In contrast, radical cultural feminism exalts in all that is "essentially" female; called cultural feminism due to its celebration of women's culture (women's music, goddess worship, etc.); embraces connections with nature and animals; lesbian separatists have roots in this camp; believes women and women's culture hold the key to planetary healing.
	eve.enviroweb.org /perspectives/issues/feminism.html (813 words)

	Uncovering the Social Evils of Radical Feminism
		Mainstream feminism was born as a counter reaction to the stifling social restraints imposed by the middle classes on both men and women alike.
		Radical feminism is a crude, nasty, dangerous and socially divisive philosophy based on very strange philosophical concepts that have little or no basis in reality.
		Radical feminism was not just steeped in Marxism, but was also crawling with other questionable philosophies such as witchcraft and every form of “New Age” nonsense it was possible to include.
	www.angelfire.com /pe/terzohrab/radfemsm.html (1649 words)

	Radical Feminism
		The idea of a bond or a shared oppression formed between women irrespective of class, race or ethnic culture is the basis of Radical feminism, it gives women everywhere the focus to unite and fight against patriarchy.
		Radical feminist thought made the personal political, it "breached the private/public divide, focusing on the personal as a key site for political action." (Weedon, p.27).
		Radical feminism sees patriarchy as a set of power relations, which aim to keep men's control over women’s sexuality, labour and motherhood.
	www.yorku.ca /mlc/sosc3990A/projects/radfem/radfem.html (340 words)

	Robert Bork on radical feminism
		The radical feminist movement not only explains that any dissatisfaction she may experience is the fault of others, namely men, but also comforts her with a sense of solidarity and common purpose in the way that some men find the battalion a welcome relief from the freedom of civilian life.
		Radical feminism is thus similar to causes such as the identity politics of the racial and ethnic programs on campuses.
		Radical feminism is totalitarian because it denies the individual a private space; every private thought and action is public and, therefore, political.
	www.tldm.org /news5/bork_feminism.htm (11951 words)

	Radical feminism - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Many radical feminists identify the positive lessons of seeing ordinary people who were discriminated against and oppressed make huge advances by getting together and taking radical action.
		Radical feminism was brought to the UK by American radical feminists and seized on by British radical women as offering an exciting new theory.
		Some radical feminists are explicitly avowed Marxists, and attempt to explore relationships between patriarchal and class analysis.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Radical_feminist (2013 words)

	Radical Feminism (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		This new feminism believes in the total and absolute equality between women and men, without any distinction, not even those laws that are for the protection of women..
		There is another type of feminism that is also radical but its purpose is to change the teaching of the Catholic Church on abortion, contraception, homosexuality, the priesthood, etc. These radical feminists want to totally transform religious institutions.
		The answer lies partly, in the sad fact that machismo, which is the equivalent for men of radical feminism for women and is something which is specially characteristic of Latin America, has created the conditions for this kind of reaction.
	www.vidahumana.org /english/family/feminism-violence.html (1598 words)

	Radical Feminism: The Bad Girls: Re: misconceptions of Radical feminism
		And although not all radical feminists are separatist or lesbian, they are unable to remove the stigma, remaining outcast, ridiculed and crucified.
		That is because, whether it drives you crazy or not, there is a STIGMA attached to radical feminism.
		But the truth is during the 1970s the lines between Lesbian and Radical Feminism became blurred, especially in the eyes of the public.
	www.suite101.com /discussion.cfm/feminism_revisited/64254/973501 (228 words)

	the f-word - Reasons to be Cheerful
		This is the view that feminism, as well as having declined, has become less radical to the point that, where it does exist, it is seen as watered-down; lacking the critical force it once had.
		This is especially the case in some strands of academic feminism, in which one finds a strong tendency to debate the pros and cons of feminist engagement with 'the state.' This is interesting up to a point, but it is all rather abstract and, as such, tends to reinforce certain negative stereotypes of liberal feminism.
		Whilst radical feminism as an activist movement is arguably less influential than it used to be, a number of radical feminist concerns can still be found both in academic and activist feminist circles.
	www.thefword.org.uk /features/2006/04/reasons_to_be_cheerful (2381 words)

	ASK AMY: FEMINISM
		We are required to know the definitions of radical feminism etc. I hope that you can help with some definitions.
		Radical feminism basically means going to the root of sexism.
		Also, historically, in 1967 radical feminists in the United States officially launched the Women's Liberation Movement, which remained active in the US until the early seventies.
	www.feminist.com /askamy/feminism/fem184.html (137 words)

	Different Types of Feminist Theory
		Feminism is the organized movement which promotes equality for men and women in political, economic and social spheres.
		Radical feminists believe that the domination of women is the oldest and worst kind of oppression in the world.
		In contrast to ideals of liberal feminism, which tend to focus on the individual woman, the socialist feminist theory focuses on the broader context of social relations in the community and includes aspects of race, ethnicity and other differences.
	www.colostate.edu /Depts/Speech/rccs/theory84.htm (1331 words)

	Radical Feminism: The Bad Girls
		Responsible for much of the progress of the second wave of feminism, radical feminists have a volatile relationship with society.
		And even as society attempts to convince women that their domain is the home and child rearing, women often do not retain the right to decide how the children are raised, disciplined and schooled.
		These are crucial decisions often held and made by the husband and father, a reminder to women of their "second in command" position (Radical Feminist Philosophy).
	www.suite101.com /article.cfm/13914/75283 (540 words)

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		The outgoing director of the UN Children's Fund (UNICEF) responded to critics accusing her of "radical feminism," saying if women were not strong, their children would be in jeopardy.
		And, so, while liberal feminism was advancing into the mainstream, radical feminism began to spin out a revolutionary theory that sought a sweeping away of white male culture or patriarchy as a means to liberate women.
		Like Andrea Dworkin, Deming came to believe that nonviolence must be combined with radical feminism, for the patriarchal male dominance over submissive women pervades the entire society in deeply ingrained ways.
	www.lycos.com /info/radical-feminism--women.html (494 words)

	Bring the Ruckus \| Radical Feminism (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		In our attempts to redefine what feminism is from a radical perspective, it is important to recognize where forms of domination come from and recognize that these systems of domination are connected.
		The suffragettes were radical in their intent of attaining the vote, but their resistance to the establishment of rights for fl men effectively destroyed the larger challenge of delivering a major blow to an entire system of domination.
		Kathie Sarachild argues that the refusal of the liberal left to "recognize the women's liberation movement as radical - as anti-capitalist, and anti-racist, as well as anti- male supremacist" was a liberal attack on the radical feminist movement.
	www.agitatorindex.org /articles/rfem.htm (2411 words)

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