User:Afigueroa123/Postmodern feminism

Redefining "woman"
Woman is a broad term that Postmodern feminists believe is necessary to redefine. According to

Critiques[edit]
There have been many critiques of postmodern feminism since it originated in the 1990s. Most of the criticism has been from modernists and feminists supporting modernist thought. They have put a focus on the themes of relativism and nihilism as defined by postmodernism. Though modernist critics believe more importantly, that through abandoning the values of Enlightenment thought, postmodern feminism "precludes the possibility of liberating political action." This concern can be seen in critics like Meaghan Morris, who have argued that postmodern feminism runs the risk of undercutting the basis of a politics of action based upon gender difference, through its very anti-essentialism. Roberta G. Sands and Kathleen Nuccio also raise concerns about postmodern feminists redefining “women” and the threat it may impose on the “political agenda for feminists”. The belief that the term “woman” does not identify with all women, contradicts the belief of feminists politics, who rely on unity. Feminists cannot “pursue collective political action on women’s issues” if it is argued that women do not share the same interests and concerns. Alison Assiter published the book Enlightened Women to critique postmodernists and postmodern feminists alike, saying that there should be a return to Enlightenment values and modernist feminism. Gloria Steinem has also criticized feminist theory, and especially postmodernist feminist theory, as being overly academic, where discourse that is full of jargon and inaccessible is helpful to no one.