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...gender essentialism is the belief that traditional [[gender roles]] and [[gender stereotypes]] are inherent and natural to the sexes. Feminists are strongly opposed to gender essentialism, as it's used by conservatives to argue that sexist social hie

{{PageSeo | description = Feminists see gender as a socially constructed system used to oppress women. The word ''gender'', originating from the Latin ''genus'' (sort, kind) has gained several mea

...s as [[rape]] and [[violence against women]], challenging the concept of [[gender role]]s, and challenging what radical feminists see as a racialized and gen Radical feminists locate the root cause of women's oppression in patriarchal gender relations, as opposed to [[legal system]]s (as in [[liberal feminism]]) or