Radical Feminism

• (AO3) Radical Feminist Firestone says women will only be free of oppression through separatism
• Marxist Althusser


  • Radical feminists ignore the way families are in place to socialise the next patriarchal society where social mobility is not possible as children are socialised into their classes from a young age and are taught to accept hierarchy and authority
• Murray New Right


  • Separatism and a rise in matrifocal families would turn the Government into a nanny state to provide welfare to the underclass who cannot support themselves or effectively socialise their children without male influence
• Radical feminists


  • Believe the family is set in place to oppress women through male domination within a patriarchal society. Think that patriarchy needs to be overturned, especially within the family which is the root of female oppression. See men as the enemy and the main source of female oppression and exploitation.
• Radical feminists


  • Propose separatism to achieve the end of female oppression. Many argue for political lesbianism (the idea that heterosexual relationships are inevitably oppressive towards women - males receive domestic and sexual services from women when they enter a relationship together)
• Radical feminist Greer


  • Argues for separatism and the creation of all matrifocal families to replace the nuclear family. She would state that single women appear to be happier than married women.
• Radical feminist Firestone


  • Argues for the artificial womb as the oppression of females lie in the biological capacity to bear children which an artificial womb would solve as childbearing would no longer be associated with a specific gender.
• Radical feminists

  Believe the family is set in place to oppress women through male domination within a patriarchal society
• Radical feminists

  Think that patriarchy needs to be overturned, especially within the family which is the root of female oppression
• Radical feminists


  See men as the enemy and the main source of female oppression and exploitation because they dominate women through (the threat of) domestic or sexual violence
• Radical feminists

  Believe patriarchal ideology and biology are the keys to the oppression of women, propose separatism to achieve the end of female oppression
• Radical feminists

  Argue for political lesbianism (the idea that heterosexual relationships are inevitably oppressive towards women - males receive domestic and sexual services from women when they enter a relationship together)
• Marxist Althusser


  Radical feminists ignore the way families are in place to socialise the next patriarchal society where social mobility is not possible as children are socialised into their classes from a young age and are taught to accept hierarchy and authority