Conclusion

Abstract

Revivalisms exhibit a range of models of gender relations ranging from the requirement for stereotypically submissive women to one which exhorts women to struggle for their Islamic rights in the Muslim case or their ‘equality to serve’ in the Christian evangelical feminist instance. In all cases these paradigms are claimed to spell justice and equality between women and men. In none of these instances along the continuum of degrees of submission to God and sometimes to men are they contesting patriarchal relations head on. But since the demise of radical feminism most Western feminisms, including academic feminism, are of this reformist kind.