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In feminist terms the twentieth century began, in Britain at least, with the suffragettes and ended with the Spice Girls and the popular perception, as Germaine Greer wryly observed, that ‘feminism has served its purpose and should now eff off’ (1999, p. 5). During the intervening period, feminism achieved profound success, improving the social, political, cultural and economic position of women in a whole range of ways. At the same time, feminist theory, particularly in the last three decades or so, has made a significant contribution to rethinking many aspects of the ways in which we make sense of society. Yet, many post-feminists consider that feminism has now achieved its aims and is therefore no longer relevant (or welcome) politically or theoretically, given the diversity of womanhood; or that feminism has simply gone ‘too far’ towards benefiting women, resulting in a gender ‘backlash’. Others claim that feminism has not gone far enough in addressing social inequalities, and that those gains that have been made have focused too specifically on the needs of middle-class, white professional women living in the West. In many respects therefore, feminism (including feminist sociology) is currently engaged in something of a ‘stock-taking exercise’, reflecting critically on questions such as how to address the diverse experiences of women whilst maintaining some notion of commonality, at the same time as examining the relevance of the feminist project at the beginning of the twenty-first century. 

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