Feminism

The first sentence defines the belief and the next two argue against the word, which is unusual for a glossary entry and deliberate. Liberation through uninhibited exosocial expansion is the same formula Marsh uses for exosocialism generally, so women's liberation is not a special case but the general case applied. The objection to the word is structural. Establishing endogroup feminism creates a bounded thing with an inside, an ideal member and a negative image, which is the machinery she is trying to dismantle rather than a tool for dismantling it, and she wrote that removing male and other endo-idealism would achieve more. Her reasoning about naming is consistent across the framework. Promoting feminism creates a power struggle with masculinism and leaves minorities such as transgendered people still fighting for their rights, and group affiliation is never necessary to call out discrimination, since criminal actions rather than group identities are what people are tried for in a court of law. Being jailed for nouns rather than for actions taken is, in her account, the root of racism, nationalism, ageism and sexism alike. She contrasts the specificity of women's liberation as a stigmergic goal, which included the right to divorce, the ability to survive outside marriage slavery, birth control and payment for domestic labour, with what she describes as late feminism becoming an organization rather than a goal.

Feminism contains its own long argument about naming and boundaries. Womanism was coined by Alice Walker partly in response to the exclusions of the mainstream movement, bell hooks defined feminism as a movement to end sexist oppression rather than as an identity and intersectionality after Crenshaw addressed the failure of single-axis categories. The debate over whether feminism should organize as a movement or dissolve into a general politics of liberation is not new. Marsh's position is more absolute than most, since her objection is not that the movement drew its boundary in the wrong place but that drawing one at all reproduces the structure being opposed, which leaves no version of an organized movement acceptable.