Do you think the purpose of feminist theory

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65. I think theories on feminism provide perspectives/points of view

which are usually heuristic. In building points of view, the theories go on to create names for features of the social landscape at which they are aimed. Collectively point of view, and a lexicon to describe it, can be applied to the authoring of narratives intended to recruit others to the pursuit of understanding and to social change.

The calls for social change contribute to a large body of rather similar "liberation narratives" told by many groups around the world, be they groups identified by race, gender, religion, birth status etc.

The unity of the voice of liberation suggests the potential existence of a larger more general liberation theory and some feminist theory would have membership therein.

Typically liberation theory names some force(s) as the agency of oppression.

The agent of oppression in feminist theory has been called "the patriarchy", which is simultaneously the ideas that direct oppressive practices (as cultural expectations for female genital mutilation), and the organized social structures that sustain the oppression (as exemplified in power sturctures dominated by men in many religious denominations within the Abrahamic tradition).

While a sophomoric superficial view may see the feminist liberation narrative as a 'bashing' of men, it's probably more accurate to say that it is a naming of the oppression of women and the agencies whose acts direct and sustain that oppression.