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From the perspective of cultural studies, feminist cultural politics
can be broadly divided into (at least) five contesting categories.
1. Feminist liberal politics
stresses the importance of
equality and opportunity in
such areas as employment,
access to education and
childcare.
2. Woman-centred cultural
politics, on the other hand,
concentrates on a perspective
that privileges female
difference.
3. Marxist feminists view
gender as a cultural
phenomenon. Differences in
women's cultural practice are
not seen as signs of essential
differences between the sexes.
In these first three categories, the biological male/female
difference is maintained. But in the following two, male/female
biological distinction is deliberately blurred.
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