e'" (Kaplan 55) began to develop their own critical discourse.
The new feminist discourse did not necessarily align with traditional ideologies but acquired a worldview of its own. That worldview was widely perceived as hostile toward men, in part perhaps because of the abundance of evidence for the assertion that men as a group have historically and in all cultures found social sanction for their ability to access all manner of social goods and personal freedoms while programmatically preventing women from doing so. Another aspect of new feminist ideology was that it subsumed social relations with men as the principal determinant of women's experience under women's concerns intrinsically, many of them linked to varieties of sexual freedom, with "its assumed preconditions of abortion on demand and free contraception. Lesbianism, not chastity, was the choice of those eschewing sexual relations with men. Female desire was put on the agenda" (Lake, 1996, p. 445-6).
Nor was that all. Hostile critics of feminism hold that feminism argues not for parity b
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