| Liberal Feminism has been called the | | | | women's lives. |
| mainstream form of feminism out of all the | | | | |
| sub types. | | | | They also bring to the forefront the issues |
| | | | of sexual and domestic violence perpetrated |
| It is said that liberal feminism is an | | | | against women. |
| individualistic form, concentrating on women | | | | |
| having the ability to maintain their equality | | | | Other issues that the liberal feminists |
| through being responsible for their own | | | | identify are disability rights, ecofeminism, |
| actions and choices. | | | | family, marriage equality, mother's |
| | | | economical rights and media activism. |
| The ideology of the liberal feminist is that | | | | |
| women will transform society, through their | | | | Writers of liberal feminism, Mary |
| own personal interactions with the opposite | | | | Wollstonecraft and John Stuart Mill were |
| sex. | | | | publishing within the first wave of feminism |
| | | | during the nineteenth and early twentieth |
| The liberal feminist believes "All women are | | | | century. |
| capable of asserting their ability to achieve | | | | |
| equality, therefore it is possible for change | | | | The second wave of feminism during the 1960's |
| to happen without altering the structure of | | | | to 1970's produced liberal feminist writers |
| society." | | | | such as Betty Friedan and Gloria Steinem and |
| | | | Rebecca Walker who is one of the third wave's |
| The liberal feminist also believe that the | | | | liberal feminist's writers. |
| equality of men and women can only be | | | | |
| achieved by changes being brought through | | | | Critics of liberal feminism say, "Individual |
| political and legal reform. They want the | | | | assumptions make it difficult to see ways in |
| eradication of institutional bias and | | | | which underlying social structures and values |
| implementations of fairer laws towards women. | | | | disadvantage women." |
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| Some of the main issues of liberal feminism | | | | They state that even if a woman is no longer |
| include reproductive and abortions rights, | | | | dependent on an individual man, they will |
| sexual harassment, voting rights, education, | | | | still be living in a patriarchal state. Thus |
| affordable childcare and affordable health | | | | institutional changes alone are insufficient |
| care. | | | | to give women equality in society. |
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| The United States liberal feminists campaign | | | | The liberal feminist has also been criticised |
| for the ratification of the Equal Rights | | | | further for being based on white, middle |
| Amendment and the Constitutional Equity | | | | class women's issues. It was noted that they |
| Amendment. They want to ensure that men and | | | | had ignored the plight of other women of |
| women are treated as equals under the | | | | different races, cultures or class. |
| democratic laws that influence and govern | | | | |