| Marxist | 1. Radical Feminists – ignores other sources of inequality such as sexual violence. 2. Patriarchal systems existed before capitalism, in tribal societies for example. 3. The experience of women has not been particularly happy under communism.
| Liberal | 1. Based upon male assumptions and norms such as individualism and competition, and encourages women to be more like men and therefor deny the ‘value of qualities traditionally associated with women such as empathy. 2. Liberalism is accused of emphasising public life at the expense of private life. 3. Radical and Marxist Feminists – it fails to take account of deeper structural inequalities 4. Difference Feminists argue it is an ethnocentric perspective – based mostly on the experiences of middle class, educated women.
| Radical | 1. The concept of patriarchy has been criticised for ignoring variations in the experience of oppression. 2. Some critics argue that it focuses too much on the negative experiences of women, failing to recognise that some women can have happy marriages for example. 3. It tends to portray women as universally good and men as universally bad, It has been accused of man hating, not trusting all men.
| Difference | Walby, women are still oppressed by objective social structures – namely Patriarchy Dividing women sub-groups weakens the movement for change.

 

 

- Two women a week are killed by a current or former partner in England and Wales alone

- In the year ending March 2019, 1.6 million women experienced domestic abuse

 

·       Honour women rights in order to be free from oppression

·       Give chances to women to speak on behalf themselves and based on their voices

·       Take notice about what should be spoken out by women

·       Create an alternative lifestyle here and there

·       Integrate theories and practices

·       Seek the compatibility between the goals and means to achieve it

·       Map the collective solution to acknowledge the individuality and uniqueness of every woman

·       Appreciate the women contribution

·       Use the women experiences as an individual to give meaning in social realities.