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A (Qualified) Defense of Liberal Feminism

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 March 2020

Susan Wendell
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Abstract

Liberal feminism is not committed to a number of philosophical positions for which it is frequently criticized, including abstract individualism, certain individualistic approaches to morality and society, valuing the mental/rational over the physical/emotional, and the traditional liberal way of drawing the line between the public and the private.

Moreover, liberal feminism's clearest political commitments, including equality of opportunity, are important to women's liberation and not necessarily incompatible with the goals of socialist and radical feminism.

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Hypatia , Volume 2 , Issue 2 , Summer 1987, pp. 65 - 93
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Copyright © 1987 by Hypatia, Inc.

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