Social construction argues that essences are culturally created and their meanings vary in different contexts. There is no easy methodology to determine the meaning or social status of a being outside of cultural discourse. Social construction is more geared towards exposing differences and focusing on the particularities of women s lives in different contexts. Focusing on plural identities in order to counter false essentialist notions of sameness, women replace woman, feminisms replace feminism. Woman defined by particular feminisms is that category of people universally oppressed and violently dominated by men.
Women are the subject of feminist theory and strategies of liberation.
Feminism either underlyingly assumes an answer to the question or blatantly asks it to trouble the existing assumptions about sex and gender. Her book, or journey articulates the need for women to befriend one another in a movement towards women-identified culture. She analyzes five rites of patriarchal Goddess Slaughter, which have concrete effects in the lives of all women. She argues that the oppression of women, although varied culturally, is universal. Male violence against women universally reduces the deep sense of women s spirituality.