خلاصة:
From the mid-20th century onwards, a radical tendency emerged within the women's rights movement, engaging in a fundamental critique of the dominant discourse that it considered the root cause of women's subjugation. This cause, from their perspective, was patriarchy, rooted in the power relations between men and women within the home, extending to power relations in the economic and political world. Radical feminists were influenced in this position by the philosophical-political discourse prevalent in the mid-century, namely Neo-Marxism and Neo-Freudianism. These schools of thought, emphasizing culture over economics, questioned the neutrality and objectivity of science and the validity of common customs, and considered deception as an important characteristic of capitalism, serving as a model for radical feminism. The present article seeks to strengthen the hypothesis that, just as the deconstructive views of figures like Benjamin and Marcuse, especially regarding politics, had little chance of realization due to their subversive nature, and soon gave way to reformism in the 1970s, radical feminism, particularly the connection it establishes between the definition of the political and the situation of women, cannot have the same fate.
ملخص الجهاز:
The present article seeks to strengthen the hypothesis that, just as the deconstructive views of people like Benjamin and Marcuse, especially regarding politics, had little chance of realization due to their subversive nature, and soon gave way to the reformism of the seventies, radical feminism, especially the connection it makes between the definition of the political and the situation of women, cannot have the same fate or a different fate.
The influence of these radical thoughts, which considered compromise with the capitalist system and liberal democracy to be deception, led the theorists of the women's movement to question the basis of the existing political system and link it to patriarchy, and to tie the solution to women's problems to fundamental changes in politics, inevitably making the movement more political than before.
This term was initially used in anthropology to refer to the dominant role of men in constructing unequal collective relations, but in radical feminist discourse, it gradually acquired a broader meaning and became a keyword in women’s discussions in the writings of Kate Millett; (Thornham, 2001:36) so much so that a reading of it even placed the content of existing science, reason, civilization, and politics – including methods of reasoning, theories through which they have been provided, and ultimately their performance – under this title and denied its validity.
Radical feminism sought to, following the foundation-shaking philosophers, especially with a new interpretation of the political, realize the problem of women in the form of fundamental changes in the forms of human relationships, such as the family, hierarchical relationships, and the political order centered on the state.
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