Seventies feminism was not primarily about equal opps but about transforming society. The issues around women s safety and women s right to choose their own sexuality, campaigns against violence against women were strongly taken up by socialist feminists. Neither is equal opps feminism opposed to difference feminism. We then moved into the 1990s. A feminist post-modernism is a composite stream that she is at pains to disentangle.
Post modernism is a very trendy term which is bandied around.
These three strands are very different from each other. Lacan is all about seeing the inevitability of the construction of sexual difference and the inevitability of women taking up their place in language negatively. Whereas that s in no way central to the deconstructionism of Derrida. The problem in terns of its influence on feminist thinking is that it is very much taken up by one side of feminism, namely in the Academy. But this move in the universities to thinking about subjectivities, difference and identities rather than social transformation is no longer in touch with an activist politics outside.