{"quotes":[{"text":"[Rape is] nothing more or less than a conscious process of intimidation by which all men keep all women in a state of fear.","author":"Susan Brownmiller","tags":["feminism","male-violence","radical-feminism","rape"],"id":16769,"author_id":"Susan+Brownmiller"},{"text":"This condition in which women live is created out of, and defended by, a system of ideas represented by the world's religions, by psychoanalysis, by pornography, by sexology, by science and medicine and the social sciences.","author":"Sheila Jeffreys","tags":["gender","oppression","pornography","radical-feminism","religion"],"id":20852,"author_id":"Sheila+Jeffreys"},{"text":"Feminism...Is not 'women as victims' but women refusing to be victims.","author":"Gloria Steinem","tags":["feminism","feminist","gloria-steinem","radical-feminism","victim-blaming","victim-mentality","victimhood"],"id":25387,"author_id":"Gloria+Steinem"},{"text":"Masculinity cannot exist without femininity. On its own, masculinity has no meaning, because it is but one half of a set of power relations. Masculinity pertains to male dominance as femininity pertains to female subordination.","author":"Sheila Jeffreys","tags":["feminism","masculinity","oppression","power","radical-feminism"],"id":40792,"author_id":"Sheila+Jeffreys"},{"text":"Male domination, and the low and stigmatised status of women, cause teenage girls to engage in punishment of their bodies through eating disorders and self-mutilation. There is increasing evidence that woman-hating Western cultures are toxic to girls and very harmful to their mental health. It is, perhaps, not surprising, therefore, that there seem to be some girls baling out and seeking to upgrade their status.","author":"Sheila Jeffreys","tags":["eating-disorder","gender","radical-feminism","self-harm","self-mutilation","transgender"],"id":48840,"author_id":"Sheila+Jeffreys"},{"text":"Fundamental to a radical and lesbian feminist politics is the understanding that 'the personal is political'. This phrase has two interrelated meanings. It means that the political power structures of the 'public' world are reflected in the private world. Thus, for women in particular, the 'private' world of heterosexuality is not a realm of personal security, a haven from a heartless world, but an intimate realm in which their work is extracted and their bodies, sexuality and emotions are constrained and exploited for the benefits of individual men and the male supremacist political system. The very concept of 'privacy' as Catharine MacKinnon so cogently expresses it, 'has shielded the place of battery, marital rape, and women's exploited labor'. But the phrase has a complementary meaning, which is that the 'public' world of male power, the world of corporations, militaries and parliaments is founded upon this private subordination. The edifice of masculine power relations, from aggressive nuclear posturing to take-over bids, is constructed on the basis of its distinctiveness from the 'feminine' sphere and based upon the world of women which nurtures and services that male power. Transformation of the public world of masculine aggression, therefore, requires transformation of the relations that take place in 'private'. Public equality cannot derive from private slavery.","author":"Sheila Jeffreys","tags":["feminism","gender","oppression","radical-feminism","subordination"],"id":61677,"author_id":"Sheila+Jeffreys"},{"text":"We have to imagine something before we can build the infrastructure that will allow it to exist. We have failed here on both fronts: in imagination and in reality. Our great weirdos, from Emily Dickinson to Simone Weil to Coco Chanel, are seen as outliers, as not relevant to the way we think through what we want out of life. It's the same way we discuss radical feminist writers like Dworkin and Firestone. Dworkin is unhinged, Firestone is too eccentric to be taken seriously.","author":"Jessa Crispin","tags":["feminism","radical-feminism"],"id":120453,"author_id":"Jessa+Crispin"},{"text":"Feminism is the struggle to end sexist oppression. Therefore, it is necessarily a struggle to eradicate the ideology of domination that permeates Western culture on various levels, as well as a commitment to reorganizing society so that the self-development of people can take precedence over imperialism, economic expansion, and material desires.","author":"bell hooks","tags":["capitalism","domination","feminism","ideology","imperialism","oppression","politics","radical-feminism","society"],"id":130780,"author_id":"bell+hooks"},{"text":"In the radical feminist view, the new feminism is not just the revival of a serious political movement for social equality. It is the second wave of the most important revolution in history. Its aim: the overthrow of the oldest, most rigid class/caste system in existence, the class system based on sex - a system consolidated over thousands of years, lending the archetypal male and female roles and undeserved legitimacy and seeming permanence.","author":"Shulamith Firestone","tags":["feminism","radical-feminism"],"id":173610,"author_id":"Shulamith+Firestone"},{"text":"Radical feminist theorists do not seek to make gender a bit more flexible, but to eliminate it. They are gender abolitionists, and understand gender to provide the framework and rationale for male dominance. In the radical feminist approach, masculinity is the behaviour of the male ruling class and femininity is the behaviour of the subordinate class of women. Thus gender can have no place in the egalitarian future that feminism aims to create.","author":"Sheila Jeffreys","tags":["equality","gender","radical-feminism","women"],"id":213830,"author_id":"Sheila+Jeffreys"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":17,"pages":2,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}