Principles of Feminist Critique

1	Gender is historically contingent (located in time)
2	Gender is culturally specific (located in material practices and specific places
3	Gender is an interpretation of what female and male bodies mean in relation to what we believe about the world (our philosophy)
4	There is a cultural reciprocity between gender practices and perceptions of biology, and there is a tendency to forget that a fact is both observed and interpreted.
5	Frequently even though a gender practice has been discarded, the perspective it created on "nature" can be difficult to eliminate
6	Our systems of social policy and cultural practice reflect a tendency to conserve the ideological result of practices that are not longer apparent.
7	We let competing ideologies undermine healthful practices
8	Sexual inequality is the single most prevalent form of inequality in the world. the majority of those in poverty, in dire need of improved health care without access to education, without access to political rights are women
9	Open dialogue allows for the free flow of the material out of which all social policy and political practice is derived: ideas.

Developed by Brandie Siegfried, BYU English and Women's Studies Professor

from Women Studies 422: Feminist Theory