Radical feminism ALREADY PASSED

Radical Feminist Theory -patriarchy is universal: male domination of women exists in all known societies. Firestone argues that the origins of patriarchy lie in women's biological capacity to bear and acre for infants, since performing this role means they become dependent on males Patriarchy is the primary and most fundamental form of inequality and conflict. The key division is between men and women. Men are women's main enemy. All men oppress all women. All men benefit from patriarchy- especially fro women's unpaid domestic labor and from their sexual services. The personal is political -Patriarchal oppression is personal and direct. it occurs in the public sphere of work and politics and in the private sphere of the family, domestic labour and sexual relationships. All relationships involve power and are political when one person dominates the other. Radical fems refer to these power relationships as sexual politics. What do radical feminists focus on? -the ways in which patriarchal power is exercised through personal relationships, often through sexual or physical violence or the threat of it. this has the effect of controlling women Brownmiller- fear of rape is a powerful deterrent against women going out at night.