ABSTRACT
RADICAL FEMINISM IS STILL EVOLVING in several directions at once, and so any attempt to define it is bound to stress some of its aspects more than others. But one way to approach this rich school of feminist thought is to point to radical feminists' insistence that women's oppression is the most fundamental form of oppression. According to Alison Jaggar and Paula Rothenberg, this claim can be interpreted to mean
Depending on what aspects of women's oppression a radical feminist stresses, she will focus on anyone of a number of topics: art, spirituality, food, ecology, reproduction and mothering, gender and sexuality, and so on. In the best possible world-where time and space were unlimitedI would have been able to include chapters on the contributions radical
feminists have made to women's culture. During the last twenty years, radical feminists have, in a variety of ways, been creating and celebrating women's religion, science, art, poetry, literature, song, dance, cuisine, horticulture. The list is a long and happy one.
