THEORIES OF INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS II (ULUSLARARASI İLİŞKİLER KURAMLARI II) - (İNGİLİZCE) Dersi Feminist Thought and International Relations soru detayı:
SORU:
What is radical feminism?
CEVAP:
Radical feminism primarily aims to formulate new ways of understanding the relationship between men and women; and believes that it is the maledominated hierarchy (or patriarchy) that is responsible for the oppressed status of women
today (Maynard, 1995: 260; Walby, 1990: 3). Therefore, it believes in “going to the root” or the source (of the problem). According to this branch of feminism, if changes are not brought about in this hierarchy, there can be no equality between men and women, and that a total reconstruction of the society is necessary to bring about the desired reforms. In that respect, radical feminists
support the idea of dismissing the patriarchal societal structure and suggest the establishment of a matriarchal order in which women would not have a secondary legal status (Donovan, 2010: 267-269).