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Very few academic fields have remained untouched by the emergence of feminist and gender theory as critical tools for reflecting on, and challenging, the legitimacy of regnant epistemologies. The study of religions is no exception, although it has been...

Feminism, the ideology that supports uplifting the status and improving the rights of women, has been one of the most influential political ideas of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Since its inception, it has been both hailed as a profound...

the belief in the social, economic, and political equality of the sexes. Although largely originating in the West, feminism is manifested worldwide and is represented by various institutions committed to activity on behalf of women's rights and...

Being a feminist means more than just articulating a particular literary theory or cultural critique. Feminism requires change; it demands that we live our lives differently as women and as men. Feminist masculinities embrace the core idea that the...

Carrie Chapman Catt, America's leading suffragist, helped organize the international suffrage movement in 1902. Feminists from developed nations met regularly to exchange strategies for winning the vote in their countries. Beyond winning the...

Feminism in China has been intricately intertwined with both philosophy and political ideology. As early as the Zhou dynasty, men and women were associated respectively with notions of yang and yin in a philosophy that organized the world into...

Contrary to popular assumptions about women's absence from the politics of national defense and war during the early Cold War era (1945–1965), women indeed participated politically, supporting and influencing as well as opposing American...

A research approach initiated by the New Women’s Liberation Movement, which was established in the Anglo-American sphere in the mid-seventies through publications by Key, Lakoff and Thorne/Henley (all 1975). Whereas the mainstream linguistics...

The modern feminist movement stems from the middle of the 1960s in North America, and perhaps a little later in Europe, although important political feminist activities (for example, the Suffragette movement in Britain and the League of Woman Voters in...

Social movement that seeks equal rights for women. Widespread concern for women's rights dates from the Enlightenment; its first important expression was Mary Wollstonecraft's A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (1792). The 1848 Seneca Falls...

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