Social feminism

Kollontay, unlike so many other dissidents, was not murdered or sent to the labor camps. She survived in a series of ceremonial and ambassadorial posts taken with the implicit understanding that she muzzle her criticism. See Beatrice Farnsworth, Alexandra Kollontai Socialism, Feminism, and the Bolshevik Revolution (Stanford Stanford University Press, 1980). 

The equality versus difference arguments (or equal rights versus social feminism ) also seem too clear-cut and too polarised as a way of understanding Woolf s feminism. Her accounts of the difference of women s values, in literature and in life, are central to her writings but they are also open-ended, and more relativist than absolute. As Mary Jacobus argued in an important feminist essay on Woolf, the difference of women s writing , like sexual difference itself, becomes a question rather than an answer . ... 

Feminism of equality theory debates the essentialist natures of rights and opportunities for women. Gender is defined as a socially constructed phenomenon, an ambiguous and changeable concept which is not solely connected to biology (Brandth and Verstad, 1993 14-18). The gender perspective holds that women and men are both equal and different from each other, and that women are also different from each other. In other words, both men and women can embody the feminine principle, and some women potentially embody less of the feminine principle than some men do. By... 

Harding, S. (1987). Introduction Is there a feminist method In S. Harding (Ed.), Feminism and methodology Social science issues (pp. 1-15). Bloomington Indiana University Press. 

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