[3][4] Linda Hirshman first used the term in Get to Work: A Manifesto for Women of the World (2006) to oppose the alleged free choice of housewives.
Her argument centered around the societal harms of women sacrificing their career aspirations to stay at home.
First, it understands freedom as the capacity to make individual choices, and oppression as the inability to choose.
[2]: 248 Ferguson identifies a great influence of liberal individualism in choice feminism.
She cites Amy Richards, Jennifer Baumgardner, Naomi Wolf, and Rebecca Walker as examples of choice feminists.