But contemporary feminism wields uncanny power. Numerous feminists interviewed after the meeting expressed without reservation that the conference was a victory for feminism. Beijing demonstrated that to underestimate this power or to fail to comprehend that the objective of feminism is the radical restructuring of society and all social institutions is an error with grave consequences. One of the most hotly contested issues at Beijing was the disputed meaning of gender. Obviously, the meaning of sexuality affects the meaning of marriage, family, and the rearing of children, etc.
Sexuality is also related to feminist revolutionary dialectic.
Like Marxists, they believe that a cultural revolution is necessary in order to achieve liberation and justice for women who are all victims of patriarchal oppression. In Beijing, as in Cairo, the Vatican delegation stressed the Church's teaching on the distinctiveness of the sexes created by God, the innate dignity of all human life, and the complementarity of males and females. The affirmation of the family and of motherhood follows from this. So does opposition to divorce, contraception, abortion, euthanasia, aberrant sexual behavior, and violence of all kinds. Of course, the Church's affirmation of the equal dignity and worth of every human life, and denunciation of every kind of injustice and abuse, that is to say sin, is grounded in this fundamental truth about human beings created by God in His image.