Difference feminism

Taking for granted an equal moral status as persons, difference feminism asserts that there are differences between men and women that do not, or should not, be considered equally.

The term "difference feminism" developed during the "equality-versus-difference debate" in American feminism in the 1980s and 1990s, but subsequently fell out of favor and use. In the 1990s feminists addressed the binary logic of "difference" versus "equality" and moved on from it, notably with postmodern and/or deconstructionist approaches that either dismantled or did not depend on that dichotomy