my womens studies teacher usually teaches lib fem as "add women and stir" technique as opposed to rad being like "start with men and women fresh"
Mmm, I mean . . . kind of? But Add women and stir is it’s own mindset and not indicative of the entire span of liberal feminism. I mean, many aspects of liberal feminism do take that approach, see for example any “we just need women politicians!” pro-Hilary crap.
But addressing systemic oppression is about more than just adding women and mindlessly stirring. To address the treatment of rape victims in our society, the rights of trans women or the fact that black women serve harsher prison sentences than white women really doesn’t have much to do with the add women and stir method.
I wouldn’t personally agree with that interpretation on the basis of what it leaves out of both lib and radfem discussion and implementation.
