ce what they call their “domestic slavery” with a collective means of carrying out housework and child care. They feel that the only way that this goal can be realized is through a socialist revolution, which creates a state-centered economy which meets the needs of all. This basic transformation requires women and men to pursue their liberation together.Liberal Feminism is based on the traditionally liberal feeling that individuals should be free to develop their own talents and pursue their own interests. They accept the basic organizations of our society but seek to expand the rights and opportunities of women. They also advocate reproductive freedom for all women. They respect the family as a social institution, but seek changes including widely available maternity leave, and child-care for women who want to work. With their strong belief in the rights of individuals, liberal feminists do not think that all women need to move collectively towards any one political goal. Both women and men, through their individual achievement, are capable of improving their lives if society simply ends legal and cultural barriers rooted in gender.Radical Feminism finds that reforms of liberal feminists are inadequate, they also feel that a social revolution would not end patriarchy. Instead, they feel that gender inequality can only be reached by eliminating the notion of gender itself. The foundation of gender, they feel, is rooted in the biological fact that only women can bear children. Radical feminists, therefore, look towards new reproductive technology in order to separate women’s bodies from childbearing. If the idea of motherhood was on the demise, then the entire family system could be left behind, liberating women, men, and children from the “tyranny” of family, gender, and sex itself.A functionalist looks at gender as a way to organize social life. They put out a theory, in which gender integrates society bo...
