feminism

Examples of feminism in the following topics:

• The Feminist Perspective

  • Feminism is a broad term that is the result of several historical social movements attempting to gain equal economic, political, and social rights for women.
  • First-wave feminism focused mainly on legal equality, such as voting, education, employment, marriage laws, and the plight of intelligent, white, middle-class women.
  • Second-wave feminism went a step further by seeking equality in family, employment, reproductive rights, and sexuality.
  • Although there was great improvements with perceptions and representations of women that extended globally, the movement was not unified and several different forms of feminism began to emerge: black feminism, lesbian feminism, liberal feminism, and social feminism.

• Gender and Social Movements

  • Second-wave feminism refers to a period of feminist activity beginning in the early 1960s and through the late 1980s.
  • Second Wave Feminism has existed continuously since then, and continues to coexist with what some people call Third Wave Feminism.
  • Second wave feminism saw cultural and political inequalities as inextricably linked.
  • Finally, the third-wave of feminism began in the early 1990s.
  • There is and must be a diversity of feminisms, responsive to the different needs and concerns of women, and defined by them for themselves.

• The Feminist Perspective

  • At the turn of the century, the first wave of feminism focused on official, political inequalities and fought for women's suffrage.
  • In the 1960s, second wave feminism, also known as the women's liberation movement, turned its attention to a broader range of inequalities, including those in the workplace, the family, and reproductive rights.
  • Currently, a third wave of feminism is criticizing the fact that the first two waves of feminism were dominated by white women from advanced capitalist societies.
  • The relationship between feminism and race was largely overlooked until the second wave of feminists produced literature on the topic of black feminism.

• The Feminization of Poverty

  • The feminization of poverty refers to the fact that women represent a disproportionate share of the world's poor.
  • The feminization of poverty describes a phenomenon in which women represent a disproportionate percentage of the world's poor.
  • Increasing health services to women could, therefore, mitigate the feminization of poverty.

• The Feminist Perspective

  • Feminist theory is the extension of feminism into theoretical or philosophical discourse.
  • Radical feminism, in particular, evaluates the role of the patriarchy in perpetuating male dominance.
  • Feminism focuses on the theory of patriarchy as a system of power that organizes society into a complex of relationships based on the assertion of male supremacy.

• Feminist Theory

  • This perspective is sometimes referred to as multicultural feminism, multiracial feminism, or womanism.

• Women in the Labor Force

  • In response to the pressure from feminism and cultural trends highlighting characteristics in workers that have culturally been associated with women, feminization of the workplace is a label given to the trend towards greater employment of women, and of men willing and able to operate with these more 'feminine' modes of interaction.

• The Social Construction of Gender

  • Butler is a trained philosopher and has oriented her work towards feminism and queer theory.
  • Butler's most known work is Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity, published in 1991, which argues for gender performativity.

• The Interactionist Perspective

  • Both masculinity and feminity are performed gender identities, in the sense that gender is something we do or perform, not something we are .

• Gender Roles in the U.S.

  • Before the rise of feminism in the 1960s and 1970s and the influx of women into the workforce in the 1980s, women were largely responsible for dealing with home matters, while men worked and earned income outside the home.