[JHBowden]

In some ways, modern feminism is conservative, given the way many thinkers talk about the "female mode of knowing" and so forth. Traditional liberalism, being more abstract, looks at human beings qua human beings and emphasizes uniform rights instead of respecting "ways of being in the world" and other nonsense. Here is the conflict between instinct and reason.

Postmodern thought in general is much closer to De Maistre than it is to J.S. Mill.

[GMMAC]

"In some ways, modern feminism is conservative ..."

Nonsense.
Feminism - by any definition - is about promoting one specific gender and, even if it's claimed this isn't at the other gender's expense, is quite plainly sexist.

If promoting and/or favoring one race over another is blatant racism, how can feminism, which advocates exactly this same thing with respect to gender, possibly be anything other than equally blatant sexism?

True conservativism, by advancing equality of opportunity, fosters legitimate equality between the sexes.

Contemporary feminism is the antithesis of conservativism precisely because it's effectively neo-Marxism with gender and sexual orientation now standing in for economic class.
Why else are females and homosexuals of both genders constantly and universally portrayed as oppressed victims and all heterosexual males - and especially fathers - as their evil oppressors?

Although technically, as (reverse?) racism also figures into this same neo-Marxist equation, it's "white, heterosexual males" in particular who now constitute this new bourgeoisie.