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"Pocket Guide to Feminisms" from a Women's Studies course
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It's pretty short: http://www.yorku.ca/caitlin/wstudies/theories.htm

My thoughts, including some questions:

  1. Five of the six kinds of feminism mention women being "oppressed". The exception, postmodern feminism, doesn't (because it rejects "metanarratives", sees the word "woman" as "problematic", and suggests that biological sex is socially constructed). Does this suggest that the idea of women being "oppressed" is the closest thing there is to the "main claim" of feminism, averaging across varieties?

  2. Postmodern feminism sounds frustrating to deal with ("Even using the word โ€˜Woman' is problematic", "even notion of biological sex are constructed"). Does anyone here identify as a postmodern feminist or have anything positive to say?

  3. When I've seen descriptions of different types of feminism in the past, radical feminism seemed like the closest to what I saw as "mainstream feminism" (focus on genders as classes, uses the term "patriarchy", doesn't see "gender oppression" as just a byproduct of Marxist economic class oppression). This definition adds a bunch of other things to radical feminism that I don't see as mainstream within feminism (e.g. political lesbianism). From the definitions here, which one(s) would you consider "mainstream feminism"?

  4. Any notable varieties that this leaves out? Any errors you see?

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