post modern feminism , personal is political

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the personal is political wasn’t a rallying cry for post modern feminists who criticised radical feminists in the second wave feminist movements for

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generalsing womens oppression as that of white middle class women
including in the idea of a traditional family and private sphere

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they certainly accepted the idea that womens oppression wasn’t just in the public sphere and that feminism should

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challenge oppression across society including in the private sphere

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this can been seen in their emphasis on a fluid and diverse understanding of gender and what it means to be a woman recognising that

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each woman’s situation and identity is different

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they rejected the idea that there is a single universal experience of being a woman and argue that

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gender is not a rigid binary category but rather a spectrum of identities that intersect with other aspects of a persons social and personal life such as race class sexuality and culture