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1 1 Valerie Bryson contends that the first radical feminist groups were formed in the USA in 1967 (Valerie Bryson, 2003).

2 2 Barbara Crow notes that radical feminism first appeared in print in Shulamith Firestone's Notes from the Second Year published in 1970 (Crow 2000, p. 7 n.3).

3 3 I use prostitution in this chapter in deference to the preferred work of radical feminists; my own preferred phrase is sex work (Rosewarne 2017b).

4 4 Valerie Bryson identifies that radical feminists also broke away from movements like Marxism after being disgruntled that they had been relegated to “servicing the political, domestic and sexual needs of male activists” (Bryson 2003, p. 164). Other theorists also discuss the exclusion of women from other socialist and civil rights movements (Evans 1980; Sargent 1981).

5 5 An exception, for example, is apparent in Valerie Solanas's SCUM Manifesto, where part of the mission includes: “SCUM will kill all men who are not in the Men's Auxiliary of SCUM. Men in the Men's Auxiliary are those men who are working diligently to eliminate themselves, men who, regardless of their motives, do good, men who are playing ball with SCUM” (Solanas 1967, p. 72).

6 6 Barbara Ryan notes that “Identity politics refers to discourses and social activism focused on racial, religious, sexual, ethnic, gender, or national identity.” Ryan notes that identity politics is one factor responsible for creating divisions among women that have led to the formation of separate groups and affiliations, in turn negatively impacting on feminist activism (Ryan 2001, p. 322).