feminism
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liberal feminism | feminism that seeks equality for women by campaigning for changes in the law, for example by staging protests against rape or for equal pay | |
radical feminism | takes the view that women cannot be liberated within a capitalist patriarchal society, and it advocates a total uprooting and rebuilding of society | |
Marxist feminism | they see women’s struggles for freedom through the lens of Marxism, so women’s oppression is understood as a symptom of the oppression that occurs when there is private ownership of the means of production (such as factories n farms) | |
black feminism | aim to give voices to, and further the interests of, non-white women in their own cultural contexts | |
ecofeminism | emphasises a connection between women and the natural world, seeing a relationship between care for the planet and freedom for women, and placing blame for damage to the planet on patriarchal capitalism | |
separatist feminism | seeks freedom for women in isolation from men, seeing heterosexual relationships as inherently disempowering for women. separatist feminism closely linked to lesbian feminism, which promotes same-sex relationships for women |