POST STRUCTURAL FEMINISM

• Discourses


  Ways of seeing, speaking and thinking that cause oppression
• Discourse that oppresses women


  • The natural process of childbirth being labelled as a medical issue, with power transferred to doctors
• Butler is highly critical of the enlightenment for the way that white western middle-class women have taken over feminism and also the way that they present 'universal' image of womanhood
• Anti-essentialism


  There is no fixed essence of what it is to be a woman because identities are constructed through different discourses and there are many different discourses in different times and cultures