EWS 145 Chapter Notes - Chapter 19: Affirmative Action, Social Democracy
29 Sep 2016
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To be visionary one has to root their imagination in reality and simultaneously imagine possibilities beyond reality. The main strength of present day feminism is the way it has changed its shape and direction. During the beginning of the women"s liberation movement, visionary thinkers were present dreaming about a radical and revolutionary political movement. Women would have civil rights and exist in a white supremacist capitalist patriarchal system. The dream was to replace the culture of domination with a world of participatory economics which would use a social democracy. A world without discrimination based on race or gender. A global ecological vision of how the planet can survive and how everyone on it can have access to peace and well-being. Radical/revolutionary feminist visions became more clear and more complex as the movement progressed. Obscured by the absolutism of reformist feminists who felt safer working for change within the social order.
