On abstractness: First wave liberal feminism and the construction of the abstract woman

The views of Hagar Kotef on the criticism of the concept of liberal feminism and the evolution of the abstract woman are presented. He states critics have opposed the relationship between liberal feminism and the concept of abstract or universal subjects. These critics have opposed the efforts of earlier writers on liberal feminism to establish relationship between the two concepts. Some critiques have totally rejected this idea, stating that abstraction is a concept that disguises a reference and is concrete. They have suggested that abstraction cannot be associated with liberal feminism, as its deals with universal subjects. Karl Marx has criticized Patricia Hill Collin's assertion that feminism's claims of universalism hides a limited white and middle-class model. Hagar Kotef has understood abstractness as a project, leading to the emergence of a new perspective from which the concept of intersectionality can be considered.