Feminism
Feminism
Movement that makes the most comprehensible analysis of the current systems of oppression and evil that dehumanized us all and reaches for the most comprehensive vision of what is necessary to save our lives and our planet from the many injustices and threats that surround us
Provides only account that really gets at the root of the systems of domination
History's attempt to dismiss feminism as excessive or marginal is based on assumption that male domination is itself the constitutive framework of what is called "the human condition".
Feminism reestablishes the interconnections between all relations of domination and violence. Ennuciated the personal as political in patriarchal relations. Social structure built on subjugation of women
Shown the interconnections between patriarchy and class and racial hierarchy. With racial and class hierarchy including sexual hierarchy making women at the bottom of the whole system.
System held in place by setting subordinate groups against each other instead of uniting.
Subordinate males are depicted as sexual brutes threatening ruling class women or as over grown children who lack male status. Causes white women to split from black men, black men from black women, and black women from white women.
Establishes relationship between patriarchy and the global systems of destruction that threaten the survival of everyone on the planet: militarism and destruction of nature.
Soldier taught to identify his weapon with his sexual organ and to repress all revulsion to killing another human being as an effeminate trait that threatens to deprive him of male status, to make him a sissy or a fag.
The right of ruling class males to dominate nature and to deny their own roots in natural ecology is justified
Patriarchy provides cultural, symbolic, and psychocultural...
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