Radical feminism is a perspective within
feminism that calls for a radical
reordering of society in which male
supremacy is eliminated in all social
and economic contexts.

Radical feminists view society
as fundamentally a patriarchy
in which men dominate and oppress
women, and seek to abolish the
patriarchy in order to liberate everyone
from an unjust society by challenging
existing social norms and institutions.
This includes opposing the ******
objectification of women, raising public
awareness about such issues as **** and
violence against women, and challenging
the very notion of gender roles.
Shulamith Firestone wrote in The Dialectic
of ***: The Case for Feminist Revolution (1970):
"The end goal of feminist revolution
must be, unlike that of the first feminist
movement, not just the elimination of male
privilege but of the *** distinction itself:
genital differences between human beings
would no longer matter culturally."

Early radical feminism, arising within
second-wave feminism in the 1960's,
typically viewed patriarchy as a "transhistorical
phenomenon" prior to or deeper than other
sources of oppression, "not only the
oldest and most universal form of
******* but the primary form"
and the model for all others. Later politics
derived from radical feminism ranged from
cultural feminism to more syncretic politics
that placed issues of class, economics,
&c. on a par with patriarchy as sources of oppression.

Radical feminists locate the root cause
of women's oppression in patriarchal gender
relations, as opposed to legal systems
(as in liberal feminism) or class conflict
(as in anarchist feminism, socialist feminism,
and Marxist feminism). Gail Dines, an English
radical feminist, spoke in 2011 about the
appeal of radical feminism to young women:
"After teaching women for 20-odd years,
if I go in and I teach liberal feminism,
I get blank looks; I go in and teach radical
feminism, bang, the room explodes."