ABSTRACT
The core concepts, especially the ideas of Woman and experience, have become foundational to feminist theory. Likewise, the idea of personal politics effectively forms the backdrop for what is considered political by feminists. The tendency to see the world as gendered, and to buttress the category Woman with some notion of experience was evident even in early radical feminist texts in which it was taken for granted that, in the words of Shulamith Firestone, "there exists a wholly different reality for men and women."'
