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psychoanalytic feminism  

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  • Psychoanalytic feminism seeks to gain insight into the ways our psychic lives develop, in order to understand and eliminate women's oppression. The basic foundation of psychoanalytic feminism asserts that men have an inherent psychological need to suppress women. [Source: Encyclopedia of Gender and Society; Psychoanalytic Feminism]

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