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Joe Levy Politics Homework How and why do Feminists use the concept of 'Patriarchy'? Feminists believe that gender, like social class, race or religion, is a significant social cleavage. Radical feminists argue that gender is the deepest and most politically important of social divisions. Feminists have therefore advanced a theory of 'sexual polities', in much the same way that socialists have preached the idea of 'class politics'. They also refer to 'sexism' as a form of oppression, drawing a conscious parallel with 'racism' or racial oppression. However, conventional political theory has traditionally ignored sexual oppression and failed to recognize gender as a politically significant category. As a result, feminists have been forced to develop new concepts and theories to convey the idea that society is based upon a system of sexual inequality and oppression. Feminists use the concept of 'patriarchy' to describe the power relationship between men and women. The term literally means...

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