Radical feminism
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Radical feminism is a "current" within feminism that focuses on patriarchy as a system of power that organizes society into a complex of relationships producing a "male supremacy" that oppresses women.
In the 1960s, radical feminism emerged simultaneously within liberal feminist and working class feminist discussions, first in the United States, then in the United Kingdom and Australia. Those involved had gradually come to believe that not only the middle class nuclear family oppressed women, but also social movements and organizations that claimed to stand for human liberation, notably the counterculture, the New Left, and Marxist political parties, all of which they considered to be male-dominated and male-oriented. Often Marxist feminists found that their own parties effectively silenced them, and that the methods used were patriarchal. Women in countercultural groups related that the gender relations present in such groups were very much those of mainstream culture.
See also
- D. A. Clarke
- Feminist views on transgender and transsexual people
- Florence Rush
- Identity politics
- Gloria Steinem
- New York Radical Women
- Nikki Craft
- Kate Millett
- Rosetta Reitz
- Shulamith Firestone
- The Gender War
- Valerie Solanas
