Feminism

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Feminism is a political philosophy and social movement which seeks to define, establish, and achieve political, economic, personal, and social equality of sexes. It can also be viewed as an organized social movement that is in resistance to patriarchy.

Tendencies

Africana

Africana Womanism was a term coined in the late 1980s to focus on the experiences of African women, specific as it relates to colonialism, white supremacy and christianity. It is based on 18 principles:

  1. Self-Naming
  2. Self-Definition
  3. Family-Centeredness
  4. Wholeness
  5. Role Flexibility
  6. Adaptability
  7. Authenticity
  8. Black Female Sisterhood
  9. Struggling with males against oppression
  10. Male Compatibility
  11. Recognition
  12. Ambition
  13. Nurturing
  14. Strengthen
  15. Respect
  16. Respect for Elders
  17. Mothering
  18. Spirituality[1]

Analytical

Anarchist

Anarcha-feminism or anarchist feminism, anarcho-feminism, and/or anarchx-feminism refers towards an effort to synthesize the concerns of feminists towards patriarchy with the anarchists opposition towards all social hierarchy, this manifests in three major ways:

  1. Linking patriarchy as a uniquely important form of hierarchy with a significantly important role in the rise of the state, capitalism and other forms of social hierarchy.
  2. Attempting to integrate anarchist critiques of hierarchy with mainstream feminism.
  3. Criticizing sexist tendencies within the anarchist movement.

It is mostly associated with Emma Goldman, Lucy Parsons and Mikhail Bakunin.

Anti-Abortion

Atheist

Black

Chicana

Conservative

Cultural

Cyber

Difference

Eco-Feminism

Embedded

Equality

Equity

Eugenic

French

Gender

Global

Hip-Hop

Indigenous

Individualist

Kurdish/Jineology

Labor

Lesbian

Liberal

Lipstick

Marxist

Material

Maternal

Multicultural

Native American

Neo-

Networked

New

Post-

Postcolonial

Post-modern

Post-Structuralist

Radical

Radical Lesbian

Separatist

Sex-positive

Social

Socialist

Standpoint

State

Third World

Transgender

Transnational

Womanism

White

Vegetarian/Vegan

Victim

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