WD 210

Ma'am Aquino
17 Feb 2020
Antonio | Dimaano | Geonanga

RADICAL
FEMINISM
Presentation
Outline
Icebreaker
What is Radical Feminism?
Radical Feminism in the Philippines
Radical Feminist Perspectives on Issues
Critiques
Closing Activity
Icebreaker
 What is 
Radical Feminism?
 The context of Radical Feminism
was the mid-1960s USA
A reaction to Liberal Feminism
A critique on Marxist Feminism
"The personal is political"

Historical
Backgroud
Disappointments with
the Movement
01 Sex is the overarching
Political
Values
cause of oppression

02 Male culture dominates

03 Feminist reconceivings

04 Sisterhood

05 The private and public spheres

must come together
Towards Women's Liberation
Women as a class
 Women's 
Oppression
An analysis of women's oppression
through the Radical Feminist lens

forced motherhood

sexual slavery

male control of women's bodies

social vs. biological
root of oppression
women are nature
 01 Lesbianism

02 Womanculture

03 Confronting Patriarchy

Social
Change
If women are
oppresesed
because of their
sex...
How do we fight
sexism?
 Cultural

ANDROGYNY Believe that all women should

share one female nature; to be
nothing like men
Believe that women should

EXCLUSIVE
embody the best traits of both
men and women

FEMININITY

Libertarian
 Heterosexual as well as other sexual practices are characterized by repression. The
norms of patriarchal bourgeois sexuality repress the sexual desires and pleasures
of everyone by stigmatizing sexual minorities, thereby keeping the majority “pure”
and under control.

Feminists should repudiate any theoretical analyses, legal restrictions, or moral

judgements that stigmatize sexual minorities and thus restrict the freedom of all.

As feminists we should reclaim control over female sexuality by demanding the

right to practice whatever gives us pleasure and satisfaction.

The ideal sexual relationship is between fully consenting, equal partners who
negotiate to maximize one another’s sexual pleasure and satisfaction by any
means they choose.

Radical-Libertarian
 Heterosexual sexual relations generally are characterized by an ideology of sexual
objectification (men as subjects/masters; women as objects/slaves) that supports
male sexual violence against women

Feminists should repudiate any sexual practice that supports or normalizes male
sexual violence

As feminists we should reclaim control over female sexuality by developing a

concern with our own sexual priorities, which differ from men’s—that is, more
concern with intimacy and less with performance

The ideal sexual relationship is between full consenting, equal partners who are
emotionally involved and do not participate in polarized roles

Radical-Cultural
Radical Feminism in
the Philippines
Bridging
Gaps,
Marking a
StruggleLesbian ethics
Marked by invisibility
deviant behaviour
compulsory heterosexuality
subsumed under the gay
agenda
The
1980s
Aida Santos - first woman to
come out as a lesbian; founder
of Women's Movement

Filipino
socioeconomic issues were
prevalent
1990s

Lesbian
The Lesbian Collective (TLC)
First formal lesbian
organization
Giney Villar read the first

Struggle
public statement regarding
lesbians in the 1993 Women's
March
The
1993
"When Aida Met Giney"
published in The Inquirer
Brought in various responses

Filipino
from lesbians throughout the
country to WEDPRO
WSWC

Lesbian
Counselling committee for
lesbians under WEDPRO
The Lesbian Hotline
1994

Struggle
"Woman to Woman: Prose and
Essay"
LGBTQ+ theorizing
The
1996
First Pride March
First National Lesbian Rights
Conference (FNLRC)

Filipino
Declaration of December 8 as
National Lesbian Day
"The Purple Palette"

Lesbian
1997
First Gay and Lesbian Leaders
Conference
1998

Struggle
"Lesbianarama"
"Tibok: The Heartbeat of the
Filipina Lesbian"
 Radical Feminist
Perspectives on Issues
Motherhood and Reproduction

Sexuality and
Reproduction
 TERFs and Lesbian Separatism

LGBTQIA+
 Pornography
.

Power and Objectification

Violence and Consent

BDSM
 Masculinity
.Exclusive Femininity and Androgyny
Religion and the
State: Marriage
.
Critiques
 choice
essentialism
division
lack of theory
control
separatism
Discussion