ABSTRACT
Radical feminists believe that true gender or sex equality is impossible within a patriarchal system. For these feminists, since the system is teeming with oppressive patriarchal norms, assumptions, and institutions, truly emancipatory reform is only possible through a radical reordering of society that eliminates male supremacy. Radical feminists introduced to women at large the practice of consciousness-raising. Women came together in small groups and shared with each other their personal experiences as women. Radical-libertarian feminists claimed that an exclusively feminine gender identity is likely to limit women's development as full human persons. Among the first radical-libertarian feminists to celebrate the androgynous woman was Joreen Freeman. Gayle Rubin, another radical-libertarian feminist, saw the sex/gender system as a 'set of arrangements by which a society transforms biological sexuality into products of human activity'. Kate Millett, yet another prominent radical-libertarian feminist, agreed with Rubin that the roots of women's oppression are buried deep in patriarchy's sex/gender system.
