Men, they argued, were all-powerful, misogynist, oppressor the enemy. Women’s liberationists called upon all women to join feminist movement but they did not continually stress that men should assume responsibility for actively struggling to end sexist oppression. By making women’s liberation synonymous with women gaining social equality with men, liberal feminists effectively created a situation in which they, not men, designated feminist movement “women’s work.” Even as they were attacking sex role divisions of labor, the institutionalized sexism which assigns unpaid, devalued, “dirty” work to women, they were assigning to women yet another sex role task: making feminist revolution. This lack of participation is not solely a consequence of anti-feminism. So far, contemporary feminist move ment has been primarily generated by the efforts of women men have rarely participated. Feminism defined as a movement to end sexist oppression enables women and men, girls and boys, to participate equally in revolutionary struggle.
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