Patricia Cain's Feminist Theory

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Patricia Cain critiques the history/ development of feminist theory. Cain explores the lack of lesbian experiences in many different feminist legal scholarships and how it can skew the perception of a women’s reality. Feminist methods come from women listening to other women. Cain describes that as being the best way to understand other women’s experiences is by it being listened to by women’s themselves. But a limitation to that is the lack of different experiences being told and taken into consideration, more notably lesbian experiences. Cain talks about the exclusion of lesbian experiences by analyzing the three feminist legal scholarship stage. Sometimes once out as lesbian, their own feminist sisterhood disowned during the first stages.

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