Radical feminism

The radical feminism is current Féminisme which appears at the end of the years 1960 and which sees in the oppression of the women (or patriarchate) the base of the system of being able on which the human relations in the company are organized. Other social phenomena such as the war or capitalism are seen like emerging from the principal contradiction of the company between the two kinds.

Radical feminism dissociates feminist movements which aim to the improvement of the female condition by installations of legislation (reformisms) without blaming the patriarchal system.

With others, this current seeks to dispute this model by rejecting the archetypal sexual roles and of male oppression. It accompanies the sexual Libération and the Liberation movement by the women in the United States, in England, in Canada and in France. The term “militant feminist” is generally a pejorative term which is often associated, by their detractors, with radical feminism. Generally, radical feminism is perceived apart from the members like an identity form of Communautarisme.

The term goes back at least to 1969 avec birth of the FLFQ ( Face of Women's Liberation of Quebec )

Specificity

In the mobility of the Second Sex of Simone de Beauvoir, radical feminism continues criticism of the male Domination and the feminine roles, through a critic of the patriarchate and a questioning of the constraints related to the kind. This current contributed to renew the analysis of the male domination in Sociologie, in the Droit and in political Théorie. It highlighted the character sexist of the company, while proposing means of fighting there.

In particular, the radical feminists reject the Marxisme as bases analysis of the company, because the Marxism presents the differences in class like the fundamental engine of the inequality and the evolution of the company.

The institution of the Mariage is often seen like the perpetuation of the inequalities (not-remuneration of the work of the wife, services sexual, sexuée distribution of the tasks…). Radical feminism develops solidarity between women and the meetings and groups not-mixed. It can go until the Séparatisme, within communities of women sometimes lesbians.

The radical feminists carried out a denunciation of the Viol and Sexual assaults, but also a criticism of the Prostitution, Pornographie and forms of sexuality seen like degrading the women, like the Sado-masochisme. Feminists “pro-sex” often criticized the intolerance of certain radical feminists (Isabelle Alonso, Suzanne Képès, Husband-Victoire Louis) with regard to the Sexualité (feminist pornography, male femininity of the lesbians butches , BDSM…).

Radical feminism nourished contribution the many intellectual ones. It also influenced in France the Féminisme materialist of the French review feminist Questions , which is partly at the origin of the movement Queer. In Quebec, it insufflated the review Amazones d' Hier, Lesbiennes of Today . The radical feminists generally reproach to the theoricians queer for having begun again them social Constructivisme by emptying it of its feminist engagement.

Principal representing

Current radical feminism being influential but rather abstract, are quoted as well feminists having theorized it as great influences or feminists who are particularly indebted.

Religion

Radical feminism is often antireligieux insofar as it rejects what seems to him to be the Patriarcat.

On the other hand, it exists there groups of radical feminists who preach the Néopaganisme, the Sorcellerie, the worship of Diane, Isis and Lilith, etc

In the Anglo-Saxon world

In the French-speaking world

See too

External bonds

  • a text of Micheline Carrier

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