While you may be correct about US second-wave feminism, there is a long long history of feminism being dismissed as merely about the dissatisfactions of relatively privileged women, and therefore somehow not to be taken seriously, because they didn't really have anything to complain about. Apart from the fact that in many instances such women were a) only very relatively privileged, indeed possibly only so because women are assumed to acquire their husbands' status b) nonetheless sometimes in a position to be able to articulate and take action about issues of relevance to a much wider constituency of women, certainly in the UK situation there is substantial evidence for significant working-class involvement in feminist campaigns.
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Sat, Jan. 13th, 2007 12:47 pm (UTC)