ABSTRACT
This essay addresses a conflict between two political aims that are not commonly recognized as in tension with each other. Since both of the terms in my tide are complex and contested concepts, they require definition before I can address how and why I perceive tensions between them. There are a multitude of feminisms, feminist theories, feminist methodologies; the term as used here means the beliefs that women should not be disadvantaged by their sex, that they should be recognized as having human dignity equally with men, and that they should have the opportunity to live as fulfilling and as freely chosen lives as men can.
