The word feminism means many things to many people.
- The view, articulated in the 19th century, that women are equal to men and deserve equal rights and opportunities. The movements and theoretical developments were historically led by middle-class white women from Western Europe and North America.Editors list 17 prominent kinds of feminism based on identity,including American Indian, Arab American,Asian American,Jewish,Latina,Lesbian,Marxist, Puerto Rican and Working Class.Definitions of feminism:The movement advocating equality of both belief and advocacy that women should have the same rights as men, men with men in all areas: social, political, familial, eclesiastically.
- Most women come to feminism through personal experience.Many movements of feminist have developed over the years.Feminism is intellectual commitment and a political movement.
- Feminists disagree with many things such as about what sexism consists in ?
- and what will be done about it.
- They also do not agree with what it means to be a women or to be a man and social and political implications gender have or what they sould have.
In the mid-1800's they used feminism to refer to "the qualities of females" after the First International Women's Conference in Paris in 1892 they changed the word feminism to the French term féministe. This was used often in English for a belief in and advocacy of equal rights for women based on the idea of the equality of the sexes.
http://www.feminist.com/resources/artspeech/genwom/whatisfem.htm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Feminists
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feminism#Movements_and_ideologies
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