Cultural clash

Post-structural or Postmodern Feminism is a more academic and sometimes abstract view of feminism. It refutes the idea of a "universal" woman's experience that is held by some branches of feminism, and emphasizes the particulars of different women's different experiences in specific cultural and historical contexts. Postmodern/post-structural feminism holds the belief that there are many "truths," but they change over time, from person to person, and are dependent upon the culture in which they are expressed and lived.

Some critics have argued that modern feminism has lost its principles. However, feminism is not a stationary idea, and has to change in order to continue to be useful. Feminism has gone through many phases or waves since its advent in the United States, from First Wave Feminism all the way to Fourth Wave Feminism. Just within the U.S. feminism has changed from a movement focused on getting women the vote, and from being a movement largely run only by white, middle-class straight women, to a feminism that attempts to be more inclusive to all women, regardless of their race, ability, sexuality, religion, class and other identities. Feminism has branched into numerous subsets, such as eco-feminism, radical feminism, and (Multi)Cultural feminism, in an attempt to acknowledge all women and all their experiences. Feminism in different countries takes different forms and means different things. So feminism has changed in many ways since its advent, but it has not lost its principles. Feminism still seeks to bring equality to women, and dismantling, and dismantling oppressive institutions, which are what its principles have always been.

Angela McRobbie has written:

'Jackie: an ideology of adolescent femininity'

'Working-class girls and the culture of femininity'

'Feminism and youth culture' -- subject(s): Youth, Psychology, Cross cultural studies, Employment, Teenagers, Feminism

She wrote one of the earliest texts promoting the ideals of feminism.