Radical Feminists

• • Believe society is patriarchal and gender inequality is the largest system of oppression
  • Believe in other strands of feminism are caught between commitments to women's emancipation and other ideologies
  • Providing an equal legal framework is insufficient to overthrow the patriarchy
  • State should play a role in eradicating patriarchy in both the public and private sphere by implementing harsher punishments for crimes against women
  • Believe all relationships between men and women are based on power and dominance
• Views on patriarchy 


  - There is a big problem in the private sphere

  - Want revolutionary change women need to be liberated by a new society emerging with consciousness of gender differences being eliminated
• Kate Millet

  • Viewed patriarchy as having two parts - sexism and heterosexism (heterosexual relationships are superior)
  • Felt all heterosexual relationships were political
  • Argued for separatism and political lesbianism as she believed women should have no relations to men and should be lesbian