Getting Radical: Feminism, Patriarchy, and the Sexual-Exploitation Industries

Masculine Domination, Radical Feminism and Change

Feminists are starting to look to the work of Pierre Bourdieu, in the hope that it might provide a useful framework for conceptualizing the tension between structure and agency in questions of gender. This article argues that Bourdieu’s analysis of gender can indeed be useful to feminists, but that the options Bourdieu offers for change are problematic. The article suggests that Bourdieu’s anal...

Gyn/Ecology: the metaethics of radical feminism

idea of the imagination influencing the shape of the developing foetus was in existence before and after Van Helmont. In the eighteenth century the image-making faculty was transferred to the brain. The nineteenth-century conception that only what is in the outside world is real was replaced during the twentieth century by the thought that what goes on in people's minds can have just as much re...

the philosophical foundations of radical feminism

radical feminism is definable as a movement in second half of twentieth century that considers patriarchy or maledomination at the root of women’s oppression. according to this idea, the problem is born within the family and non equal relations between it’s male and female members, and then from hear goes to society and politics. the radical feminists were inspired by dominant discourse of new ...

Combating the Sexual Exploitation of Children

Spotting the signs of child sexual exploitation