Radical feminism as a discourse in the theory of conflict

Abstract

Radical feminism represents one of the types of the feminist theory, foundedon the attitude that the society is based on the patriarchal grounds, becauseof which women are marginalized and discriminated against. Th is theorycan be defi ned as a confl ict theory because it is based on the assumption thata society consists of opposed fractions (sexes) whose relations are based on thedomination of men over women, as well as the one that a society and diff erentrelations within it can be best described by observing these relations and theattitudes of sexes toward them. Since the radical feminist movement had beenfounded on the principles of Marxism, which, as well, represents the mostimportant confl ict theory, the comparative analysis of Marxism and this typeof feminism is the key component of this research, in order to see similaritiesand diff erences between the two theories, and, based on those, defi ne some ofthe main characteristics of the radical feminism as a confl ict theory.