The history of feminist theory's relationship to Western subjectivity, as Patricia Waugh explains in her book Feminine Fictions, has been multi-sided and frequently contradictory. During what Waugh calls "the first phase of post-1960s feminism," the desire to attain the very same masculinist position of subjectivity with which Mill fought for universal human rights one hundred years earlier drove feminist activists more than "the desire to deconstruct, decentre, or fragment" this same subjectivity, a practice found throughout "post-1960s postmodern practice and post-structuralist theory" (1098).