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:
- Self-Naming
- Self-Definition
- Family-Centeredness
- Wholeness
- Role Flexibility
- Adaptability
- Authenticity
- Black Female Sisterhood
- Struggling with males against oppression
- Male Compatibility
- Recognition
- Ambition
- Nurturing
- Strengthen
- Respect
- Respect for Elders
- Mothering
- 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:
- 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.
- Attempting to integrate anarchist critiques of hierarchy with mainstream feminism.
- Criticizing sexist tendencies within the anarchist movement.
It is mostly associated with Emma Goldman, Lucy Parsons and Mikhail Bakunin.