feminist social theory

How has feminist social theory changed over the last 3 decades? Which current do you find most satisfying at an intellectual and political level? In this essay I want to analyse how feminist theory has changed since the 1970s. However, I want to examine the importance of sex, gender and social theory vis-à-vis class and race and to show that the experience of oppression by white women and women of colour can be very different. …

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