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feminism
feminism movement for the political, social, and educational equality of women with men; the movement has occurred mainly in Europe and the United States. It has its roots in the humanism of the 18th cent. and in the Industrial Revolution. Feminist issues range from access to employment, education,... Read more
women's movement
women's movement This term refers to the mobilization of women around the project of changing and improving their position in society. It is often used interchangeably with ‘Women's Liberation Movement’ to describe the second wave of feminism from the 1970s onwards (the first wave bein... Read more
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Charlotte Perkins Gilman 1860-1935, American feminist and reformer, b. Hartford, Conn.; great-granddaughter of Lyman Beecher . Prominent as a lecturer and writer on the labor movement and feminism, she edited the Forerunner, a liberal journal. She wrote many works on social and economic problems... Read more
Jenny Holzer
Jenny Holzer 1950-, American artist, b. Gallipolis, Ohio. She links text and image in works of art composed of short aphorisms or longer declarations. Influenced by Dada , conceptual art, and feminism, her works range from printed signs to LED word sculptures and from a huge electronic billboard i... Read more
Moral Majority
Moral Majority U.S. political action group composed of conservative, fundamentalist Christians. Founded (1979) and led (1979-87) by evangelist Rev. Jerry Falwell , the group played a significant role in the 1980 elections through its strong support of conservative candidates. It lobbied for prayer... Read more
Germaine Greer
Germaine Greer 1939-, Australian feminist and writer. She moved to England (1964), earned a Ph.D. from Cambridge, and taught at the Univ. of Warwick (1967-73). Her book The Female Eunuch (1970), an analysis of attitudes toward women and a call for an end to sexual repression, made her a leading s... Read more
John Irving
John Irving 1942-, American writer, b. Exeter, N.H. His mixture of wild plot strategies and eccentric characters brought him to wide attention with his fourth novel, The World According to Garp (1978). The novel concerns the career of a novelist, and its complex narrative gives Irving the opportu... Read more
Wendy Wasserstein
Wendy Wasserstein 1950-2006, American playwright, b. Brooklyn, N.Y. Wasserstein, who made a place on the American stage for contemporary women and their concerns, explored such issues as love, independence, careers, family relationships, and feminism with wit and affection. Her first success, Unco... Read more
Margaret Eleanor Atwood
Margaret Eleanor Atwood 1939-, Canadian novelist and poet. Her writing treats contemporary issues, such as feminism, sexual politics, the fate of Canada and Canadian literature, and the intrusive nature of mass society. Her best-known novel, The Handmaid's Tale (1986), is set in a mid-21st-centur... Read more
oral history
oral history compilation of historical data through interviews, usually tape-recorded and sometimes videotaped, with participants in, or observers of, significant events or times. Primitive societies have long relied on oral tradition to preserve a record of the past in the absence of written histo... Read more

Encyclopedia entries related to "feminism"

Feminism
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to United States History Feminism. Throughout recorded history, some women...as feminists or professed a belief in feminism. The historian Gerda Lerner has addressed...defining feminist consciousness rather than feminism. From “Feminist Consciousness...
feminism
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to the Body feminism Feminism and woman's nature The most far-reaching social development of modern...of women against sexual servitude ( Margaret Sanger , 1920). While feminism takes many forms and cannot be characterized in any seamless way, it...
Feminism: Legal Aspects
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of Crime and Justice FEMINISM: LEGAL ASPECTS Even according to its critics, feminism has been one of the most important influences on the substantive criminal law in the past fifty years. Feminism has changed legal understandings of rape and battering...
Feminism, Second Wave
Encyclopedia entry from: International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences Feminism, Second Wave Second Wave feminism applies to the women ’ s movement that began at the end of 1963 and extended into the 1980s. First Wave feminism addressed employment, marriage laws, and education and later...
Feminisms and Science
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of Science and Religion Feminisms and Science At their most basic level, feminist perspectives...conflicting — which makes it more proper to speak of "feminisms" and science, rather than feminism. Despite these differences — or, perhaps, because...
FEMINISM
Book article from: Concise Oxford Companion to the English Language FEMINISM. A social philosophy concerned with the rights of women. Feminists generally consider women to be oppressed and in varying degrees...
Feminism: Criminological Aspects
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of Crime and Justice FEMINISM: CRIMINOLOGICAL ASPECTS Feminist perspectives in criminology developed in reaction to silences and gaps in mainstream criminology...
Kollontai, Alexandra Mikhailovna
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of Russian History ...x2013; 1952), theoretician of Marxist feminism; founder of Soviet Communist Party...free-thinking attitudes and supported feminism as well. They provided their daughter...reputation as a theoretician of Marxist feminism. To Friedrich Engels' and Avgust Bebel...
Womanism
Encyclopedia entry from: International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences ...was to formulate a definition of black feminism from within African American culture...x201D; In the context of second wave feminism, however, “ womanism...connectedness to wider experiences of feminism. Although she begins with the black...
Robin Morgan
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography ...primary interest and commitment became feminism, the cause with which her best known...are concerned. That her transition to feminism involved difficult personal change is...works. One, The Anatomy of Freedom: Feminism, Physics, and Global Politics, appeared...

Dictionary entries related to "feminism"

Feminism: Africa and African Diaspora
Dictionary entry from: New Dictionary of the History of Ideas Feminism: Africa and African Diaspora Feminism is broadly defined as the struggle for the liberation of women...subordination of women by men. An individual person espousing feminism is referred to as a feminist, while collective mobilizations...
Feminism: Overview
Dictionary entry from: New Dictionary of the History of Ideas ...well as feminist theorizing. Feminism (both as ideology and struggle...interrogations of Western feminism by non-Western women as...only in its plural form, feminisms , to reflect its many transnational...religion. Anglo-American Feminism Developments in Anglo-American...
Islamic Feminism
Dictionary entry from: New Dictionary of the History of Ideas Islamic Feminism The term Islamic feminism was first used in the 1990s. It is not certain who coined the...projection of a newly politicized Islam. Defining "Islamic Feminism" To understand Islamic feminism, both words have to be examined...
Chicana Feminisms
Dictionary entry from: New Dictionary of the History of Ideas Chicana Feminisms There are many definitions of feminism, and many scholars now...locations. As such, Chicana feminisms address the specific historical...that distinguish Chicana feminisms from other forms of feminism: history, culture...
Feminism: Third World U.S. Movement
Dictionary entry from: New Dictionary of the History of Ideas Feminism: Third World U.S. Movement Historically...cultural nationalist movements. Defining feminism and feminist movements represents a critical...class, and gender. For women of color, feminism represented a movement to end sexist oppression...
feminism
Book article from: A Dictionary of Sociology feminism, feminist A social movement , having...Britain), an enduring tension within feminism became more evident, between the objective...x2018;second wave’ of feminism from 1969 onwards has many different strands...
Feminism
Dictionary entry from: New Dictionary of the History of Ideas FEMINISM. This entry includes five subentries: Overview Africa and African Diaspora Chicana Feminisms Islamic Feminism Third World U.S. Movement
Feminism and Psychoanalysis
Dictionary entry from: International Dictionary of Psychoanalysis FEMINISM AND PSYCHOANALYSIS Freud's discovery of the unconscious is centrally linked...would help to eliminate sexual inequality. Mitchell's Psychoanalysis and Feminism (1972) was a marker in the recovery of psychoanalysis, by explaining...
Antifeminism
Dictionary entry from: New Dictionary of the History of Ideas ...nineteenth century, both feminism and antifeminism have been...strategies has produced new local feminisms and antifeminisms. The problem...debates about the relative feminism and antifeminism of historical...be provisional. Defining Feminism and Antifeminism Historically...
Womanism
Dictionary entry from: New Dictionary of the History of Ideas ...black feminist as womanist talks back to feminism, brings new demands and different perspectives to feminism, and compels the expansion of feminist...1980s witnessed an internal insurgency in feminism led by women of color who participated...

Thesaurus entries related to "feminism"

feminism
Book article from: The Oxford American Writers Thesaurus feminism • noun  a longtime advocate of feminism synonyms : the women's movement, the feminist movement, women's liberation, female emancipation, women's rights; informal women's lib.
exemplary
Book article from: The Oxford American Writers Thesaurus ...2. exemplary jail sentences synonyms : deterrent, cautionary, warning, admonitory; rare monitory.   3. her works are exemplary of cutting-edge feminism synonyms : representative, illustrative, characteristic, typical.
dialectic
Book article from: The Oxford American Writers Thesaurus dialectic • noun  feminism has of course contributed to this dialectic synonyms : discussion, debate, dialogue, logical argument, reasoning, argumentation, polemics; formal ratiocination.
recurrent
Book article from: The Oxford American Writers Thesaurus recurrent • adjective  a recurrent blood clot in his lung | patriotic feminism is a recurrent theme in her music synonyms : repeated, recurring, repetitive, periodic, cyclical, seasonal, perennial, regular, frequent; intermittent, sporadic, spasmodic.
inform
Book article from: The Oxford American Writers Thesaurus ...squeal on, tell on, blab on, tattle on, blow the whistle on, sell down the river, snitch on.   3. the articles were informed by feminism synonyms : suffuse, pervade, permeate, infuse, imbue, inspire; characterize.
protagonist
Book article from: The Oxford Pocket Thesaurus of Current English ...leading/main character, principal, hero/heroine, leading man/lady, title role, lead.   2. a protagonist of feminism synonyms : leader, leading supporter, prime mover, moving spirit, standard-bearer, mainstay, spokesman, spokeswoman...

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Feminism and Public Health Nursing: Partners for Health
Magazine article from: Scholarly Inquiry for Nursing Practice; 1/1/2001; ; 700+ words ; ...Blackburn, 1996) defines feminism as "the approach to social...and Wheeler (1985) define feminism as "a world view that values...1987) noted in defining feminism that women's experiences...that one can speak only of "feminisms." Feminisms, however diverse...
Feminism made it okay ...(Brief Article)
Magazine article from: off our backs; 1/1/2000; ; 700+ words ; ...physically but instead of taking it and just bowing my head, feminism made it okay for me to keep going. Feminism made it okay for me to get good grades and be proud of it. Feminism made it okay for me not to take that Home Economics course but...
Transnational feminisms and the World Social Forum: encounters and transformations in anti-globalization spaces.
Magazine article from: Journal of International Women's Studies; 4/1/2007; ; 700+ words ; ...expressions of transnational feminism at the WSF with implications...inter-relationality of feminisms, anti-globalization...debates over the future of feminism taking place in transnational...impacts of the WSF on feminisms in specific places and...attention in any study of feminism and the ...
Feminism is for Everybody.
Magazine article from: Women in Action; 12/1/2001; ; 700+ words ; ...unfortunately deprived of a walking and talking feminism, bell hooks' Feminism is for Everybody could not have come at a better...Many of today's feminists come face to face with feminism only in the classrooms. While the movement has...
Multiracial feminism: recasting the chronology of Second Wave feminism.
Magazine article from: Feminist Studies; 6/22/2002; ; 700+ words ; ...the emergence and contributions of Second Wave feminism. (1) Although initially eager to read and teach...history that Chela Sandoval refers to as "hegemonic feminism." (2) This feminism is white led, marginalizes the activism and world...
(Other) feminisms--(other) values.
Magazine article from: Hecate; 10/1/2003; ; 700+ words ; ...discussions about feminisms within women's movements...approach to look at feminisms from a cultural and...to definitions of feminism, whether they self...based resistance to feminisms HKU Perspective: Feminism as a western import...
Whither feminism? Feminism's identity crisis.
Magazine article from: Current; 1/1/1994; ; 700+ words ; ...unthinkable for them ten years earlier. Feminism was altering their lives as much...counterparts. Today, three decades of feminism and one Year of the Woman later, a majority of American women agree that feminism has altered their lives for the better...
Feminism.(NEW REFERENCE WORKS IN WOMEN'S)(Feminism: Opposing Viewpoints)(Book review)
Magazine article from: Feminist Collections: A Quarterly of Women's Studies Resources; 12/22/2008; ; 700+ words ; Christina Fisanick, editor, FEMINISM: OPPOSING VIEWPOINTS. Detroit...95, ISBN 978-0737737707. Is feminism still relevant, or are we at the...in this case the latest version on feminism (1)--aims to teach students...
Power, feminisms, and coalitional agency: inviting and enacting difficult dialogues.
Magazine article from: Women's Studies in Communication; 3/22/2009; ; 700+ words ; ...discussions over feminism in communication...conversations about what our feminisms are, how we define...impacts that power feminism has on feminisms and feminists in...conversations about feminisms, that power feminism does not feel like...
European Feminisms, 1700-1950: a Political History.(Book Review)
Magazine article from: Canadian Journal of History; 12/1/2002; ; 700+ words ; ...investigating the history of feminisms in Europe more than...inadequate treatment of feminism's history by educators...the history of feminism has never been accorded...history, European Feminisms examines the "debates...working definition of feminism. Although prefaced...historiography and ...