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Early into the movement, several efforts were made to articulate a radical feminist doctrine: Valerie Solanas's SCUM Manifesto (1967), The Redstockings Manifesto (1969), and the Radicalesbians' The Woman‐Identified Woman (1970) are three of several manifestoes that became instrumental in shaping the movement (Rhodes 2012). In recent years, scholars have attempted to synthesize these ideas. Saulnier for example, details five key tenets:

(1) the personal is political; (2) women are an oppressed class and patriarchy is at the root of their oppression; (3) patriarchy is based in psychological and biological factors and enforced through violence against women; (4) women and men are fundamentally different; (5) society must be completely altered to eliminate male supremacy – incremental change is insufficient; and (6) all hierarchies must be eliminated.

(Saulnier 1996, p. 32)

Finn Mackay similarly presents four key criteria:

First, the acceptance of the existence of patriarchy alongside a commitment to end it; second, the use and promotion of women‐only space as an organizing method; third, a focus on all forms of male violence against women and their role as a keystone of women's oppression broadly; fourth and finally, an extension of the analysis of male violence against women to include the institutions of pornography and prostitution.

(Mackay 2015b, p. 334)

Using these lists as my starting point, in the sections that follow I examine these key principles.