Oakley reasoned that because “men are individualized” and capitalism is abstract, men have been more immediately blameable. Yet she also concluded that it was impossible to generate a patriarchal model of society which would correspond to a universal experience of women’s oppression. Oakley provocatively suggested that although some social groups might have conspired against women, yet women have also conspired among themselves and discriminated against their own kind. She advocated a more active engagement of feminists in the sociological aspects of women’s lives rather than confining their
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