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	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.
		Notions that women are "inherently kinder and gentler" are one of the foundations of cultural feminism, and remain a major part of it.
		"Feminism articulates political opposition to the subordination of women as women, whether that subordination is ascribed by law, imposed by social convention, or inflicted by individual men and women.
	www.uah.edu /woolf/feminism_kinds.htm (1283 words)

	Topics in Feminism (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy)
		Feminism is both an intellectual commitment and a political movement that seeks justice for women and the end of sexism in all forms.
		Although the term "feminism" in English is rooted in the mobilization for woman suffrage in Europe and the US during the late 19th and early 20th century, of course efforts to obtain justice for women did not begin or end with this period of activism.
		Feminism is grounded on the belief that women are oppressed or disadvantaged by comparison with men, and that their oppression is in some way illegitimate or unjustified.
	plato.stanford.edu /entries/feminism-topics (6645 words)

	The Rise and Demise of Women's Liberation
		The first, liberal feminism, does not openly admit that its ideology is a variant on "men are the enemy" but disguises that assumption behind a liberal facade that men are "misguided" and through education and persuasion (legal if need be) can be brought around to accepting the equalization of the status of women.
		Reactionary feminism, on the other hand, openly asserted as its fundamental tenet that all men are the enemies of all women and, in its most extreme forms, called for the subjugation of all men to some form of matriarchy (and sometimes for the extermination of all men).
		There is without doubt a significant proportion of women who are biding their time with socialist feminism in reaction to the regressive positions of most new Marxist-Leninist formations (whose morality is Victorian and whose understanding of the so-called "woman question" is hardly equal to Bebel's statement written in 1879).
	www.uic.edu /orgs/cwluherstory/CWLUArchive/dixon.html (5192 words)

	Feminism - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Feminism is a diverse collection of social theories, political movements, and moral philosophies, largely motivated by or concerning the experiences of women.
		Feminism as a philosophy and movement in the modern sense is often dated to The Enlightenment with such thinkers as Lady Mary Wortley Montagu and the Marquis de Condorcet championing women's education.
		From the perspective of some strands of feminism, as well as the men's movement and queer theory, inequalities and stereotypes based on gender are detrimental to both men and women and both sexes suffer from the expectations of traditional gender roles.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Feminism (4583 words)

	Socialist feminism - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Socialist feminism is a branch of feminism that focuses upon both the public and private spheres of a woman's life and argues that liberation can only be achieved by working to end both the economic and cultural sources of women's oppression.
		Socialist feminism is a dualist theory that broadens Marxist feminism's argument for the role of capitalism in the oppression of women and radical feminism's theory of role of gender and the patriarchy.
		According to socialist feminists, this view of gender oppression as a sub-class of class oppression is naive and much of the work of socialist feminists has gone towards separating gender phenomena from class phenomona.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Socialist_feminism (306 words)

	Carol Ehrlich: Socialism, Anarchism And Feminism
		For socialist feminists do seem to be both sensible and radical - at least, most of them evidently feel a strong antipathy to some of the reformist and solipsistic traps into which increasing numbers of women seem to be stumbling.
		It's not surprising that a socialist brand of feminism seems to be a source of revolutionary sanity to many women who don't want to be witches, primitive warriors, senators, or small capitalists, but who do want to end sexism while creating a transformed society.
		The third principle merely remarked that "socialist feminism is a strategy for revolution"; and the fourth and final principle called for holding discussions "in the spirit of struggle and unity".
	www.anarcha.org /sallydarity/CarolEhrlich.htm (6843 words)

	eG - Features - The Gauntlet Feminism Supplement (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Among post-modern feminism deconstructions is the word "women," which they claim is meaningless because of the heterogeneity among females, and "females," which are defined in terms of males.
		Socialist feminists saw women's relationship to the economy as the origin of women's oppression and suggested that gender took shape under capitalism, where women's work often took place in private and was unpaid or underpaid.
		The goal of socialist feminism was to transform basic structual arrangments of society so that categories of class, gender, sexuality and race no longer acted as barriers to the equal sharing of resources.
	www.ucalgary.ca /~gauntlet/eg/features/stories/20010315/supp17.html (1015 words)

	Socialist Feminism
		Read "Socialist Feminism: A Strategy for the Women's Movement" by the Chicago Women's Liberation Union, Hyde Park Chapter [1972], by clicking here.
		Socialist Women: European Socialist Feminism in the Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries.
		Evans, Richard J. Comrades and Sisters: Feminism, Socialism, and Pacifism in Europe, 1870-1945.
	www.cddc.vt.edu /feminism/soc.html (213 words)

	Different Types of Feminist Theory
		Feminism is the organized movement which promotes equality for men and women in political, economic and social spheres.
		Socialist feminist believe that the way to end this oppression is to put an end to class and gender.
		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)

	Socialist Feminism: Is It Really Just A Class Issue?
		Whereas liberal feminism defines equality as comparable to the male status within society, socialist feminism defines equality as a condition onto itself and seeks to create this condition outside of a capitalist society.
		Socialist feminism argues the same position with one small difference: It applies socialist theory to gender issues, especially within the working class, and seeks to understand the nature of women's roles in society.
		And though socialist feminism fails to adequately address the male-female issue of power, it is steeped in a long and rich history of social politics, daring to envision a better world in which everyone is equal, free to pursue their dreams, and granted a safe and secure place in the world.
	www.suite101.com /article.cfm/13914/75231 (502 words)

	Socialist Feminism Part One: What is Socialist Feminism? \| Workers' Liberty (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Socialist feminists see the cause of women's oppression to be in the capitalist system, and that to win equality women workers must stand in solidarity with each other.
		Socialist feminists have fought for the demands of working class women and for women's struggles to be linked with workers' struggles.
		Although the tradition of socialist feminists is a proud one within the Left and labour movement, many socialist groups have rejected feminism claming it hinders unity.
	www.workersliberty.org /node/view/1029 (666 words)

	EVE ONLINE \| Feminism
		Socialist Feminism: sees societal problems as rooted in material conditions (historical materialism); emphasizes the economic value of women's labor; anthropocentric (human-centered) in its conception of nature as a resource for human needs; advocates political solutions; dismisses spiritual/personal struggle as ineffective for revolutionary social change.
		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)

	The Dissident Feminist: Schools of Feminist Thought
		Since feminism itself resists all kinds of definitions by its very existence and aims, it is more accurate to say that there are all kinds of "flavors" and these flavors are mixed up every which way; there is no set of Baskin Robbins premixed flavors, as it were.
		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.
		Amazon feminism is concerned about physical equality and is opposed to gender role stereotypes and discrimination against women based on assumptions that women are supposed to be, look or behave as if they are passive, weak and physically helpless.
	www.sapphireblue.com /dissident_feminist/factions.shtml (3119 words)

	Monthly Review March 2003 Nancy Holmstrom
		Socialist feminism is the approach with the greatest capacity to illuminate the exploitation and oppression of most of the women of the world.
		When socialist feminism is intended in this way—as differentiated from Marxism—”Marxist feminism” is then understood as a perspective which gives primacy to class oppression as opposed to other forms of oppression—or going further, that reduces sex oppression to class oppression.
		Socialist feminists of the 1970s had criticized liberal and Marxist writers for using categories that were “gender-blind”: “the individual” in liberalism, “the working class” in Marxism.
	www.monthlyreview.org /0303holmstrom.htm (3702 words)

	New Socialist Magazine, Socialist Feminism, By Frances Piper
		Barrett's socialist feminism drew on and fed into post-structuralist theories which construe the realm of ideas as operating independently from social reality - that is, as having a life of their own, only coincidentally linked to the material constraints and opportunities in people's everyday lives.
		As the dualist framework came to dominate socialist feminism, women of colour mounted an important challenge.
		Socialist feminists working from the social reproductionist framework are well positioned to intervene in these debates, and show once again the relevance of a non-reductionist marxism to feminism.
	www.newsocialist.org /magazine/45/article8.html (1112 words)

	Socialist Feminism
		Exactly a century ago Engels consigned the ideas and hopes of the first British socialists, the Owenites, to a Utopian prehistory of scientific socialism, a period of 'crude theories' and 'grand fantasies' which had to be superseded by historical materialism before the communist struggle could be waged on a sound, scientific basic.
		Feminism was therefore not merely an ancillary feature of the socialist project, but one of its key motivating impulses.
		Unlike later socialist movements, in which working people organised as proletarians, the Owenites were organising against the process of proletarianisation, believing that through economic co-operation and the re-moulding of human character they could effectively short-circuit capitalist social relations.
	faculty.goucher.edu /history231/taylor_socialist_feminism.htm (1929 words)

	What Is Socialist Feminism (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Socialist feminists are working for the total transformation of society and we believe such a transformation is in the interests of the vast majority of people.
		A second aspect of the social changes sought by socialist feminists is an end to the split between the personal and the political, between family life and public life.
		As socialist feminists, we are committed to building autonomous women's organizations as part of the broad struggle for social transformation.
	coss.stcloudstate.edu /psamuel/SocialistFeminism.htm (2042 words)

	Introduction to Individualist Feminism. Part One
		Socialist feminism advocates socio-economic equality and its approach to justice is ends-oriented -- it defines justice in terms of a specific social condition.
		Socialist feminists were and are not similarly restricted in using the force of law.
		According to socialist feminism, gender is the political characteristic that defines a class.
	www.zetetics.com /mac/indfem1.htm (2598 words)

	So, Is Radical Feminism a Socialist Front? - Carey Roberts - MensNewsDaily.com™
		The basic premise of radical feminism is that being a wife and mother is inherently exploitative of women.
		Beginning in the 1920s, socialist thinkers realized that capitalism could never be overthrown by violent means.
		Their range of tactics is astonishing: - discourage women from childbearing; undermine the institution of the family; promise women equal pay for unequal work; impose gender quotas on national elections; emasculate men.
	mensnewsdaily.com /archive/r/roberts/2004/roberts012704.htm (519 words)

	The socialist feminist project Monthly Review - Find Articles
		Socialist feminism should be seen as an ongoing project.
		Feminism that speaks of women's oppression and its injustice but fails to address capitalism will be of little help in ending women's oppression.
		Socialist feminism is the approach with the greatest capacity to illuminate the exploitation and oppression of most of the women of the wo rld.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m1132/is_10_54/ai_99146088 (678 words)

	Socialist Feminism Part 2 \| Workers' Liberty (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		In the late 19th Century Germany socialist feminists such as Clara Zetkin became active within organisations like SDP (Socialist Democratic Party.) Zetkin was the secretary of the International Socialist Women and the editor of the SDP journal Equality.
		As a socialist feminist, Zetkin realised that it was vital to have women socialists involved in Trade Unions, and fighting for women’s rights.
		The history of socialist feminism indicates we must build a women’s movement capable of winning and that true liberation cannot be sought under capitalism.
	www.workersliberty.org /node/view/1168 (554 words)

	What is Socialist Feminism?
		The problem with this, from a socialist feminist point of view, is not only that it leaves out men (and the possibility of reconciliation with them on a truly human and egalitarian basis) but that it leaves out an awful lot about women.
		Socialist feminists, while agreeing that there is something timeless and universal about women's oppression, have insisted that it takes different forms in different settings, and that the differences are of vital importance.
		Socialist feminists are in a very different camp from what I am calling "mechanical Marxists." We (along with many, many Marxists who are not feminists) see capitalism as a social and cultural totality.
	www.cwluherstory.com /CWLUArchive/socialfem.html (2706 words)

	Activating the Hyphen: A Case for the Reinvigoration of Socialist-Feminism
		On the other hand, socialist organizations, lacking willing partners in the more popular and mainstream feminist world, have focused on economic justice, often ignoring or subsuming questions of gender (and race and sexuality) in their lonely struggle to advance economic democracy.
		Socialist feminism developed a critique of patriarchal capitalism, thus limiting the scope of their analysis to a specific, and therefore changeable, form of patriarchy, by adding a critique of the domination of men over women to the existing critique of the domination of labor by capital.
		This school of feminism argued that patriarchy was an economic and political structure as well as a cultural/social phenomenon.
	democratic-socialists.uchicago.edu /activist/current/activating-hyphen.html (1164 words)

	Individualist Feminism: The Lost Tradition (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		The two basic traditions of feminism that fundamentally questioned the political system were socialist feminism, from which contemporary radical feminism draws, and individualist feminism, which is sometimes called libertarian feminism.
		According to socialist feminism, sex is the political characteristic that defines a class.
		Since socialist feminism bases classes on biology, they are stable, and men and women are inevitably enemies.
	www.libertyhaven.com /theoreticalorphilosophicalissues/feminism/individualist.html (2748 words)

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