Editing Feminism (section)

==== Social constructionist ideologies ====
{{main|Social construction of gender}}
In the late 20th century various feminists began to argue that gender roles are [[social construction|socially constructed]],<ref name="Butler">{{cite book |last=Butler |first=Judith |author-link=Judith Butler |title=Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity |publisher=Routledge |location=New York |orig-year=1990 |date=1999 |isbn=978-0-415-92499-3 |url=https://archive.org/details/gendertroublefem00butl}}</ref><ref name=West&Zimmerman>{{cite journal |last1=West |first1=Candace |last2=Zimmerman |first2=Don H. |title=Doing gender |journal=[[Gender & Society]] |volume=1 |issue=2 |pages=125–151 |doi=10.1177/0891243287001002002 |jstor=189945 |date=June 1987 |s2cid=220519301}} [https://campus.fsu.edu/bbcswebdav/institution/academic/social_sciences/sociology/Reading%20Lists/Social%20Psych%20Prelim%20Readings/IV.%20Structures%20and%20Inequalities/1987%20West%20Zimmerman%20-%20Doing%20Gender.pdf Pdf.]</ref> and that it is impossible to generalize women's experiences across cultures and histories.<ref name="Benhabib">{{Cite journal |last=Benhabib |first=Seyla |date=1995 |title=From identity politics to social feminism: a plea for the Nineties |url=https://ojs.education.illinois.edu/index.php/pes/issue/archive |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180705233024/https://ojs.education.illinois.edu/index.php/pes/issue/archive |archive-date=5 July 2018 |access-date=20 January 2018 |page=14 |journal=Philosophy of Education |volume=1 |issue=2}}

: ''Reproduced in'':
:* {{cite book |last=Benhabib |first=Seyla |chapter=From identity politics to social feminism: a plea for the Nineties |chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ldmUEPvayQMC&pg=PA27 |editor-last1=Melzer |editor-first1=Arthur M. |editor-last2=Weinberger |editor-first2=Jerry |editor-last3=Zinman |editor-first3=M. Richard |title=Politics at the Turn of the Century |pages=27–41 |publisher=Rowman & Littlefield |location=Lanham, Md. |date=2001 |isbn=978-0-8476-9446-4}}</ref> [[Post-structural feminism]] draws on the philosophies of [[post-structuralism]] and [[deconstruction]] in order to argue that the concept of gender is created socially and culturally through [[discourse]].<ref>{{cite book |last=Randall |first=Vicky |chapter=Feminism |chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=m70cBQAAQBAJ |editor-last1=Marsh |editor-first1=David |editor-last2=Stoker |editor-first2=Gerry |title=Theory and methods in political science |page=116 |publisher=Palgrave Macmillan |location=Basingstoke |date=2010 |edition=3rd |isbn=978-0-230-57627-8}}{{Dead link|date=June 2023 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref> [[Postmodern feminism|Postmodern feminists]] also emphasize the social construction of gender and the discursive nature of reality;<ref name=Butler/> however, as [[Pamela Abbott]] et al. write, a postmodern approach to feminism highlights "the existence of multiple truths (rather than simply men and women's standpoints)".<ref>{{cite book |last1=Abbott |first1=Pamela |last2=Wallace |first2=Claire |first3=Melissa |last3=Tyler |chapter=Feminist knowledge |chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=PPp7dfrNTroC&pg=PA380 |title=An Introduction to Sociology: Feminist Perspectives |page=380 |publisher=Routledge |location=London |date=2005 |edition=3rd |isbn=978-0-415-31259-2}}
: ''Citing'':
:* {{cite book |last=Yeatman |first=Anna |chapter=The epistemological politics of postmodern feminist theorizing |chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=3W3QES9zwdsC&pg=PA15 |title=Postmodern Revisionings of the Political |pages=[https://archive.org/details/postmodernrevisi0000yeat/page/15 15–22] |publisher=Routledge |location=New York |date=1994 |isbn=978-0-415-90198-7 |url=https://archive.org/details/postmodernrevisi0000yeat/page/15}}</ref>