introduction
liberal feminism
- It is like a example. Many feminist theories react to it.
Main thrust: the subordination of women is rooted in specific social environment. It needs to be reformed.
radical feminism
The environment which oppress women must be ripped out focusing on sex, gender and reproduction.
- Radical-libetarian feminism think androgyny is the cure.
- radical-cultural feminism think what matters is the low value the patriarchy assigns to feminine quality. But some one object that feminine quality itself is something constructed by men.
Marxist feminism and socialism feminism
None can achieve real freedom in a class-based society especially women.
- socialism feminism emphases the oppression of patriarchy
- and also their interaction
All of above are macrocosm theories. Now we change to some microcosm theories
psychoanalytic and care-focused feminism
- Freud paid attention to Oedipus complex. Girls' id which submitting to ego is incomplete compared to boys. As a result, she becomes ruled instead of ruling, becomes periphery of culture. Feminists in such a background think Freud's opinion is not essential. Traditional opinions assigning to female quality was consequences of actual experience.
- A new generation of psychoanalytic feminists turned to theorists such as Jacques Lacan for more insights into the psychosexual dramas that produces "man" and "woman".But it rises a new question "why women 'choose' to be oppressed"
- Care-focused feminists do not emphasize psychosexual development. Instead they stress boys' and girls' psychomoral development.