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Are the issues that divide feminist more significant than those that unite them?
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Are the issues that divide feminist more significant than those that unite them? There are three main strains of feminism, liberal, socialist and radical. However any type of Feminism's main underlying beliefs include: that women are disadvantaged because of their sex, and that this disadvantage should be overthrown. It highlights patriarchal society, the supremacy of men and the oppression of women. One of the issues that divide feminists are the divide between gender and sex. Radical feminism differs from liberal and socialist views in acknowledging that gender alone is the most fundamental of social divisions. For example, where a socialist feminist would argue that we live in a 'capitalist society', radical feminists insist we live in 'patriarchal society'. These two views are, however, not immensely dissimilar. Radical feminist Firestone adopted Marxist theory to swap class for sex. Society can be understood through the process of reproduction (as opposed to production)....
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