arily dominate the bourgeoisie can never be achieved with the dominance and oppression from make oppression. “Social feminists point out that women are brought up to accept their assigned gender role. It is reinforced in the school, in the workplace, in the home, and in the images of themselves that women see everywhere around them.” (63) With this view, it is far easier for women to be guided into a proletariat atmosphere so that man can dominate the workforce. Finally, the school of identity feminism is a recent ideology approached by the women who are not white, middle-class academics. This type of approach “has emerged from the women who have been excluded from the academic currents”. (68) Black women, lesbians, native women etc. have conjured up a type of feminism that describes their own type of oppression. Overall they represent that “the recognition that if the personal is political, then race, sexual orientation, physical condition, and origin are just as relevant to women’s oppression as gender”. (69) Overall, identity feminism is based on experience within the state and not on abstract concepts such as the other schools of feminists. Here are a few examples of the types of identity feminism held today within the state. The first and perhaps the oldest form of identity feminism is black feminism. Although it generally bases itself on books and theory, black feminists believe that “it goes beyond theory. Black feminism is a process of self-conscious struggle that empowers women and men to actualize a humanist vision of community”. (70) Humanist vision encourages a society or state that structures itself without the discrimination against color or sex. This is how black feminism approaches oppression. Another example of identity feminism is lesbian feminism. This can be defined as “the shift from lesbianism as a sexual identity to lesbianism as a political d...
