Feminism - A Radical Ideology? Analytical Essay by Top Papers

This paper compares and contrasts feminism with the traditional or mainstream political ideologies, in the attempt to answer whether feminism as an ideology represents a radical break from the traditional or mainstream ideologies of liberalism, conservatism, and democratic socialism. This paper argues that although feminism breaks away in some ways from the traditional ideologies, many of its features are derived from these earlier perspectives. In particular, different forms of feminism have more or less in common with the liberalism and democratic socialism. The paper notes that only radical feminism can be said to least resemble mainstream ideologies.