Definition of Feminism

2024年3月26日发(作者：建设大棚)

Definition: Historian and activist Cheris Kramarae once famously remarked

that "feminism is the radical notion that women are human beings." Although

that's the sort of thing you e printed on t-shirts, it also happens to be an

accurate and conci definition of what feminism is. Feminism, as a movement, is

about women living on equal terms with men--and not pushed down, by law or by

culture, into a subrvient role.

Although the word "feminism" had been ud during the mid-19th century as

a synonym for "femininity," it was first ud to describe a political movement in

1894, when a British newspaper warned of "feminists" who had begun to achieve

power in the French legislature.

Feminism is generally broken down into veral historical "waves":

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Reproductive Rights

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LGBT Rights

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Civil Rights Organization

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Equality

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First-wave feminism

, which lasted from the 18th century until World War II

and was centered on curing basic civil rights, such as the right to vote and to

own property ;

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Second-wave feminism

, which lasted from the end of World War II until the

defeat of the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA) in the 1980s and centered on

achieving equality in the workplace, protecting reproductive choice, and

attempting to pass the ERA ; and

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Third-wave feminism

, which incorporates racial justice, LGBT rights, and class

oppression into the feminist worldview and eks real, practical equality for all

women.

There are also different kinds of feminism, the most common being:

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Liberal feminism

, which eks equal rights through policy change but does

not focus on cultural issues ;

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Radical feminism

, which eks the abolition of gender as we know it ; and

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Cultural feminism

, which eks to establish competing female power

structures, traditions, and norms.

Also Known As: women's liberation

Common Misspellings: femenism, fiminism