Ideologi politik
Liberalisme berasal dari kata liberalis yang berarti bebas. Dalam liberalisme, kebebasan individu, pembatasan kekuasaan raja (pemerintah), dan persaingan pemilik modal (kapital). Karena itu, liberalisme dan kapitalisme terkadang dilihat sebagai sebuah ideologi yang sama.
Sosiologi gender
Liberal feminism is the belief that individuals should be free to develop their own talents and pursue their interests. Individuals seek to expand equality by removing the barriers in society. Socialist feminism thinks that capitalism strengthens patriarchy by concentrating wealth and power in the hands of a few. The traditional family structure should be replaced by a collective revolution. In Radical feminism, they believe that patriarchy is so deeply rooted in society that even a sociological revolution would not end it; Society must eliminate gender itself.