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French feminism is diverse: it consists of many different points of view. French feminism believes in the importance of social and political activism in order to ensure equal opportunity and equal access to justice for women. However, French feminists have tended to focus more strongly on the philosophical dimension of womens issues than have British and American feminists although French feminist theory has become, over time, an increasingly visible presence in Anglo-American feminism. The focus of French feminism has taken two different forms: materialist feminism and psychoanalytic feminism. The first form is intersted in the social and economic oppression of women while the second form, as you might expect, concentrates on womens psychological experience. French feminists are also concerned with the ways in which womens social/economic and psychological experience are connected. French materialist feminism examines the patriarchal traditions and institutions that control the material (physical) and economic conditons by which society oppresses women, for example, patriarchal beliefs about the difference between men and women and the laws and customs that govern marriage and motherhood. Men can act upon the world, change it, give it meaning, while women have meaning only in relation to men. The word woman, has the same implications as the word other. A woman is not a preson in her own right. She is mans Other: she is less than a man; she is a kind of alien in a mans world; she is not a fully developend human being the way a man is. The first to argue that women are not born feminine but rather coditioned to be feminine by patriarchy, Beauvoir once said: one is not born a woman; one becomes one. Not all women want to have children or feel comfortable being mothers. Patriarchy thinks women are unfulfilled as women if they dont have childre. Women are trying to escape their own fredom to fulfill their own potential in the world, a freedom that they often try to avo