... feminism as an ideology involves the discrimination and injustices suffered by women in existing society. (Leech, 1996, pg 231.) There is no one single feminist perspective. Liberal feminists are a branch of feminists that argue that gender equality can be achieved without challenging men as a group or changing basic economic and political arrangements such as capitalism. (Leech, 1996, pg 223). Other feminists claim that liberal feminism fails to understand women's true interests and cannot provide a strategy for their liberation ( Eatwell and Wright, 1993, pg 201) there are also Marxist/socialist feminists who unlike the liberal feminists see a contradiction between women and achieving civil and political rights. Socialist feminists understand women to be twice as oppressed (Wilford, 1984, pg.263) not only are they oppressed in the economic and political world but also oppressed within the family and home. Liberal and socialist feminists have different perspectives over the relationship ...

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