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This 5 page paper answers five questions posed by a student regarding feminism. Several subjects are addressed including its relationship with the Enlightenment and with Marxism as well. Radical feminism and liberal feminism are examined. The movement is also looked at from the African American perspective and many unique insights are presented. All questions are discussed in light of Josephine Donovan's popular work Feminist Theory : The Intellectual Traditions of American Feminism. No additional sources cited.
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United States. While it began earlier in time, the Enlightenment did invigorate feminism in the 1800s. In fact, nineteenth century liberal feminists had added a critique of gender relations
to liberal Enlightenment aims. This perspectives "solution" to the problem of inequality seemed to be nothing short of a transformation of the society as it was known. At least,
that is what seems to emanate from Donovans work. Liberal feminists were more concerned with a generic feminism, letting go of radical ideas which served to separate men and
women even further. Not quite as obsessed with the socialist agenda, liberal feminists are a breed which have in modern times been equated with groups such as NOW. During the
nineteenth century some feminists such as Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony appear to have fit this category. Further, the liberal agenda in feminism at the time, seemed to
be related to Enlightenment thought. One reason for that is that both defied old religious notions which expressed the necessity of the male/female divide. 2. What was
the matriarchal vision as expressed by nineteenth century feminists? In reading Donovans classic work, one gets the sense that the matriarchal vision is not very different from the one
twenty-first century women have today. The matriarch after all has played a very different role in society over the past centuries, but paradoxically, it has stayed the same. Whatever her
role, the matriarch will continue to birth babies, feed them and nurture them and the family she creates. She will continue to nest. However, the fundamental reality is quite different
from the vision, which is one shared by many. The vision involves a strong, ambitious matriarchy, much equated with that of male dominance. Yet, while nineteenth century feminists have
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