Should feminist activists agree or disagree with this statement?.
Feminist ideology emerged as a result of profound social and economic changes that have taken place in society since in the last century. Feminism emerged with the struggle to obtain rights as women were disadvantaged and stigmatised in relation to men. Broadly speaking, feminists drew inspiration from "shared experiences which they deemed oppressive in a bid to combat what they called "Patriarchy". Women, since ideology and identity politics developed have been broadly characterised as being oppressed under Patriarchy by men who are said to be the more dominant gender. It has also been argued however that women's oppression has come as a result of biological differences. Theorists of this school of thought have argued that things such as hormonal differences make women more emotional which inevitably leads to them becoming the weaker sex. These claims however have been refuted and theorists have sought to focus on a common epistemology to highlights women's oppression. There are conflicting strands of feminism today but in their early days feminists rallied around a similar struggle. When the so-called second-wave feminism started in the late sixties and early seventies, the order of the day was universal sisterhood. Identity politics is associated with groups that organise around an identity rather than a traditional ideology or political party. The overloaded phrase "identity politics" has come to signify a wide range of political activity and theorizing founded in the shared experiences of injustice of members of certain social groups. Rather than organizing solely around ideology or party affiliation, identity politics typically concerns the liberation of a specific constituency marginalized within its larger context. Women are the prime example of this. Other examples of this are male homosexuals, who as well as being men, are marginalised because they are gay and this is not seen as the norm within society.