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physical activities for women have also been part of feminist movements. Many scholars consider feminist campaigns to be a main force behind major historical...

feminism was a period of feminist activity that began in the early 1960s and lasted roughly two decades, ending with the feminist sex wars in the early 1980s...

the 1960s. Radical feminists view society fundamentally as a patriarchy in which men dominate and oppress women. Radical feminists seek to abolish the...

The feminist movement, also known as the women's movement, refers to a series of social movements and political campaigns for radical and liberal reforms...

Feminist theory is the extension of feminism into theoretical, fictional, or philosophical discourse. It aims to understand the nature of gender inequality...

Third-wave feminism is a feminist movement that began in the early 1990s, prominent in the decades prior to the fourth wave. Grounded in the civil-rights...

While feminists around the world have differed in causes, goals, and intentions depending on time, culture, and country, most Western feminist historians...

Women's studies is an academic field that draws on feminist and interdisciplinary methods to place women's lives and experiences at the center of study...

pro-sex feminism, sex-radical feminism, or sexually liberal feminism, is a feminist movement centering on the idea that sexual freedom is an essential component...

center-right to center-left. As the oldest of the "Big Three" schools of feminist thought, liberal feminism has its roots in 19th century first-wave feminism...

hierarchy should be replaced by decentralized free association. Anarcha-feminists believe that the struggle against patriarchy is an essential part of class...

Feminist philosophy is an approach to philosophy from a feminist perspective and also the employment of philosophical methods to feminist topics and questions...

Feminist literary criticism is literary criticism informed by feminist theory, or more broadly, by the politics of feminism. It uses the principles and...

ecotopian fiction, climate fiction, young adult dystopian novels, and feminist dystopian novels. The word utopia was first used in direct context by Sir...

her book Le Féminisme ou la Mort (1974). Ecofeminist theory asserts a feminist perspective of Green politics that calls for an egalitarian, collaborative...

feminists' position in present social arrangements, and many feminists are not willing to take that chance, according to Eller. "Political feminists tend...

commonly associated with the emergence of queer theory). As stated by lesbian feminist Sheila Jeffreys, "Lesbian feminism emerged as a result of two developments:...

Feminist separatism is the theory that feminist opposition to patriarchy can be achieved through women's separation from men. Much of the theorizing is...

Feminist theology is a movement found in several religions, including Buddhism, Hinduism, Sikhism, Neopaganism, Baháʼí Faith, Judaism, Islam, Christianity...

Feminist legal theory, also known as feminist jurisprudence, is based on the belief that the law has been fundamental in women's historical subordination...