   Where liberal feminists prefer to focus on equality, not just between people but between the sexes more generally, radical feminists tend to see sexual difference as something instituted by power. So in a curious way, neither approach, however at odds with each other, takes sexual difference seriously. Rather, they see it as an effect of power, not something real in its own right. In contrast, the variety of theories addressed in this and the next section take seriously the category of woman and want to develop an ethics and politics upon it. The views considered in this section, largely developed from in the Anglo-American context, take their cue from the material and lived conditions of women, both as mothers and as subjects, and the politics that these experiences give rise to. 