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Feminism
* Critiques the unequal social, economic, political, and sexual status of women to men.
* advocates women entering careers that expand their minds.
* aims to break the bonds of anatomy and deny that biology is in any sense destiny.
* alleges to be about women's freedom.
* also coincides with anti-racist thought
  - leads to senile dementia
* are doctrines
  - political ideology
* becomes polarization along gender barriers.
* believes that women suffer from past that was hierarchical, hegemonic, and patriarchal.
* biological aberration.
* buttress for true masculinity.
* calls for women's ordination.
* component of civil society.
* confusing and usually misunderstood subject no matter what country is being discussed.
* consists in calling attention to and eradicating gender-based oppression.
* covers a very wide range of theoretical approaches and practical activities.
* culture a renewed society.
* describes activism and a commitment to action as much as a range of ideas.
* desires to reevaluate the way society under stands femininity and womanhood.
* double pronged project, including scholarship and activism.
* emphasizes that humanity is neither noble nor base and nations, big or small, are equal.
* fight for women's rights - power rights.
* has no age
  - sense of color
  - various meaning for each person, and colleges consider different things important
* hates men, and it especially hates men who act like men, men who take charge.
* iguores the natural and spiritual realities of the differences between men and women.
* illuminates the systematic oppression of groups by hierarchical social structures.
* is about breaking down arbitrary barriers
  - challenging unequal power structures
  - changing the way that people see men and women
  - choices for women
  - empowerment, pop-feminism, about power
  - equal rights for women
  - signs
  - the self
  - all about the power to choose
* is also about women believing in their own importance
  - the force behind the myth of the second-class medical citizen
* is an all-class alliance which sees all women as equally oppressed
  - analysis of power in relationships between individuals and between groups of people
  - experiment in social change
  - as much about freeing men from their roles as it is about freeing women
  - at the cutting edge of nearly all major intellectual disciplines
  - concerned with acknowledging the personal sphere as a social and political space
  - concerned, first and foremost, with social justice for all women
  - divided on the issue of the sex industry
  - fundamentally about equality between men and women
* is more than an ideology, more than a philosophy
  - gender equality
  - rejecting traditional expectations of womanhood
  - simply observing inequality and obtaining access to positions of power
* is now a major controversial part of society
  - more about equal rights for women in general
* is part of a larger philosophy that values all life
  - our culture
  - relief from the pressure to be confined to only the traditional female role
  - responsibility
  - seen as an individual accomplishment
  - something individual to each feminist
  - supposed to be a movement about ensuring equality between the two genders
  - suspicious of social structures that are hierarchical
  - taken up in studies of sf much earlier than anti-racist discourse
* is the balance between strength and love that women manage to maintain
  - belief that women are superior to men
  - best thing that ever happened to men
  - idea that people are equal
  - life force of the universe the blue print for procreation
  - mind, the body, the soul
  - modest proposal that women are human beings, too
  - movement to end the oppression women as a group face
  - political and social movements that promote women's equality and rights
* is the radical notion that woman are people
  - women are people
  - theory, lesbianism is the practice
  - world's most impotent political movement
  - therefore a religious perversion
  - treated as though it dirty word, when actually, it is the key to gender equality
  - what keeps women's souls nurtured and alive
* is, after all, a movement that blurs the personal with the political
  - properly, part of a larger philosophy that values all life
* keeps saying the sexes are the same.
* looks at patriarchy, values of masculinity, differing styles, stereotyping and prejudice.
* means creating a healthy environment for all women
  - freedom to learn more
  - many different things to different people
  - the action by women and men to establish equality and justice for women
* necessarily has various shades and diverse tendencies.
* needs more men to be active in feminism.
* parallels racism and sexism.
* political ideoogy that calls for the radical reordering of society.
* represents freedom for women.
* requires ferocity, and hence verbal violence in defense of our freedom.
* respect a respect of women, a respect of humanity, a respect of life.
* seeks to include ALL women
  - women in human rights
* seems to have had no effect on pornography.
* sees patriarchy as more pervasive, and as oppressive to women.
* social movement concerned with women's emancipation.
* stands for equality of access to rights, responsibilities and opportunities.
* tends to be an ideology that evokes instinctive indifference in males.
* transformational force, an individual and social force.
* usually involves women's equality with men in intellect, ability, and morality.
* works to change both laws and attitudes and thereby to keep women secure in their rights.
+ Lesbian, Lesbians and feminism
  * Feminism is the political and social movements that promote women's equality and rights. They wanted feminism to be accepted by society. They believed lesbians were less accepted by society and might hurt the feminist movement.
  * Feminism is about changing the way that people see men and women. Feminism says that women are poorly treated and that this must stop. Somebody who follows feminism is called a feminist.