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Feminism Glossary
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- 1First-wave FeminismThe early form of feminism which developed in the mid-nineteenth century and was based on the pursuit of sexual equality in the areas of political and legal rights, particularly suffrage rights
- 2Second-wave FeminismThe form of feminism that emerged in the 1960s and 1970s, and was characterized by a more radical concern with 'women's liberation', including and perhaps especially in the private sphere
- 3GenderA social and cultural distinction between males and females, as opposed to sex, which refers to biological and therefore ineradicable differences between men and women
- 4Radical feminismA form of feminism that holds gender divisions to be the most politically significant of social cleavages, and believes that they are rooted in the structures of domestic life
- 5Liberal FeminismA form of feminism that is grounded in the belief that sexual differences are irrelevant to personal worth, and calls for equal rights for women and men in the public sphere
- 6Socialist feminismA form of feminism that links the subordination of women to the dynamics of the capitalist economic system, emphasizing that women's liberation requires a process of radical social change
- 7PatriarchyLiterally, rule by the father; often used more generally to describe the dominance of men and the subordination of women in society at large
- 8AndrogynyThe possession of both male and female characteristics; used to imply that human beings are sexless 'persons' in the sense that sex is irrelevant to their social role or political status
- 9Difference feminismA form of feminism that hold there are deep and possibly ineradicable differences between men and women, whether these are rooted in biology, culture or material experience
- 10EssentialismThe belief that biological factors are crucial in determining psychological and behavioural traits
- 11Equality feminismA form of feminism that aspires to the goal of sexual equality, whether this is defined in terms of formal rights, the control of resources, or personal power
- 12'Pro-woman' feminismA form of feminism that advances a positive image of women's attributes and propensities, usually stressing creativity, caring and human sympathy, and cooperation
- 13Cultural feminismA form of feminism that emphasizes an engagement with a women-centred culture and lifestyle and is typically repelled by the corrupting and aggressive male world of political activism
- 14IndividualismA belief in the central importance of the human individual as opposed to social groups or collective bodies
- 15Consciousness-raisingStrategies to remodel social identity and challenge cultural inferiority by an emphasis on pride, self-worth and self-assertion
- 16PoststructuralismAn intellectual tradition, related to postmodernism, that emphasizes that all ideas and concepts are expressed in language that itself is enmeshed in complex relations of power
- 17DiscourseHuman interaction, especially communication: discourse may disclose or illustrate power relations
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