Feminists and State Power

One issue that's not actually talked about very often in sort of mainstream rehearsals of this period of feminist political history is the question of state power. The extent to which feminists should look to state power as a kind of remedy, or potential remedy, or tool for gender justice. So you have early women's liberation movement activus very sceptical of state power and don't want state funding. Of course, the lure of state funding, especially as wages start a getting repressed, becomes very hard toto resist for some feminists. But then as the anti porn faminist camp gets a stronger hold with it,. In the mid seventies onwards, obviously, state power starts being invoked by