Feminism as a philosophy and movement in the modern sense may be usefully dated to The Enlightenment with such thinkers as Lady Mary Wortley Montagu and the Marquis de Condorcet championing women's education. The first scientific society for women was founded in Middelburg, a city in the south of the Dutch republic, in 1785. Journals for women which focused on issues like science became popular during this period as well. Mary Wollstonecraft's A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (1792) is one of the first works that c ...

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Feminism, Feminism - Origins, Feminism - Feminism in many forms, Feminism - Subtypes of feminism, Feminism - Relationship to other movements, Feminism - Effects of feminism in the West, Feminism - Effects on civil rights, Feminism - Effect on language, Feminism - Effect on heterosexual relationships, Feminism - Effect on religion, Feminism - Effect on moral education, Feminism - Effects of feminism in the East, Feminism - Worldwide statistics, Feminism - Perspective: the nature of the modern movement, Feminism - Contemporary criticisms of feminism, Feminism - Famous feminists, Feminism - Books

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Feminism, in some forms and to varying degrees, has become generally accepted in Western society. However, the attention it has attracted, due to the social changes it has effected, has resulted in many dissenting voices. Criticism has come from within the movement, from masculists, and from social conservatives. Postcolonial feminists criticise Western forms of feminism, notably radical feminism and its most basic assumption, universalization of female experience. They argue that this assumption is based on the experience of white, m ...

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Feminism is a diverse collection of social theories, political movements, and moral philosophies, largely motivated by or concerning the experiences of women, especially in terms of their social, political, and economic situation. As a social movement, feminism largely focuses on limiting or eradicating gender inequality and promoting women's rights, interests, and issues in society. Within academia, some feminists focus on documenting gender inequalities that oppress women and on changes in the social position and representati ...

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Feminism - Effects of feminism in the East Feminism - Worldwide statistics Feminism - Perspective: the nature of the modern movement Feminism - Contemporary criticisms of feminism Feminism - Famous feminists Feminism - Books

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Feminism as a philosophy and movement in the modern sense may be usefully dated to The Enlightenment with such thinkers as Lady Mary Wortley Montagu and the Marquis de Condorcet championing women's education. The first scientific society for women was founded in Middelburg, a city in the south of the Dutch republic, in 1785. Journals for women which focused on issues like science became popular during this period as well. Mary Wollstonecraft's A Vindication of th ...

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Feminism, Feminism - Origins, Feminism - Feminism in many forms, Feminism - Subtypes of feminism, Feminism - Relationship to other movements, Feminism - Effects of feminism in the West, Feminism - Effects on civil rights, Feminism - Effect on language, Feminism - Effect on heterosexual relationships, Feminism - Effect on religion, Feminism - Effect on moral education, Feminism - Effects of feminism in the East, Feminism - Worldwide statistics, Feminism - Perspective: the nature of the modern movement, Feminism - Contemporary criticisms of feminism, Feminism - Famous feminists, Feminism - Books

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Feminism as a philosophy and movement in the modern sense may be usefully dated to The Enlightenment with such thinkers as Lady Mary Wortley Montagu and the Marquis de Condorcet championing women's education. The first scientific society for women was founded in Middelburg, a city in the south of the Dutch republic, in 1785. Journals for women which focused on issues like science became popular during this period as well. Mary Wollstonecraft's A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (1792) is one of the first works that can unambiguously ...

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Feminism, Feminism - Origins, Feminism - Feminism in many forms, Feminism - Subtypes of feminism, Feminism - Relationship to other movements, Feminism - Effects of feminism in the West, Feminism - Effects on civil rights, Feminism - Effect on language, Feminism - Effect on heterosexual relationships, Feminism - Effect on religion, Feminism - Effect on moral education, Feminism - Effects of feminism in the East, Feminism - Worldwide statistics, Feminism - Perspective: the nature of the modern movement, Feminism - Contemporary criticisms of feminism, Feminism - Famous feminists, Feminism - Books

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Feminism is a diverse collection of social theories, political movements, and moral philosophies, largely motivated by or concerning the experiences of women, especially in terms of their social, political, and economic situation. As a social movement, feminism largely focuses on limiting or eradicating gender inequality and promoting women's rights, interests, and issues in society. Within academia, some feminists focus on documenting gender inequalities that oppress women and on changes in the social position and representati ...

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Feminism - Origins Feminism - Feminism in many forms Feminism - Relationship to other movements Feminism - Effects of feminism in the West
Feminism - Effects on civil rights Feminism - Effect on language Feminism - Effect on heterosexual relationships Feminism - Effect on religion Feminism - Effect on moral education
Feminism - Effects of feminism in the East Feminism - Worldwide statistics Feminism - Perspective: the nature of the modern movement Feminism - Contemporary criticisms of feminism Feminism - Famous feminists Feminism - Books

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Anti-racism refers to beliefs, actions, movements, and policies adopted or developed to oppose racism. In general, anti-racism is intended to promote an egalitarian society in which people do not face discrimination on the basis of their race, however defined. By its nature, anti-racism tends to promote the view that racism in a particular society is both pernicious and socially pervasive, and that particular changes in political, economic, and/or social life are required to eliminate it. Anti-racism - Precursors of anti ...

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Anti-racism - Precursors of anti-racism Anti-racism - Origins of modern anti-racism Anti-racism - The revival of anti-racism in the United States Anti-racism - Anti-racism's influence Anti-racism - Controversies
Anti-racism - Anti-racist organisations

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Womyn is the best-known one of a number of alternate spellings intended in radical feminism (see also) misandrist circles to degender the English word women and as female empowerment. Other variants include wimmin (plural), wom!n, womban and womon (singular), while femal (from female) and humyn (human) apply the principle elsewhere. All are pronounced the same as the conventional terms. Womyn - Background. The original meaning of the English word "man" (from Proto-Germanic mannaz ...

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Continental philosophy is a general term for several related philosophical traditions that (notionally) originated in continental Europe from the nineteenth century onward, in contrast with Anglo-American analytic philosophy. Continental philosophy includes phenomenology, existentialism, hermeneutics, structuralism, post-structuralism and post-modernism, deconstruction, French feminism, critical theory such as that of the Frankfurt School, psychoanalysis, the works of Friedrich Nietzsche and Søren Kierkegaard, and most branches of Ma ...

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Anti-racist ideology has been hugely influential. It has been a catalyst for feminism, anti-war, and anti-imperialist movements. Henry David Thoreau's opposition to the Mexican War, for example, was based in his fear that the U.S. was using the war as an excuse to expand slavery into new territories. Thoreau's response was chronicled in his famous essay "Civil Disobedience", which in turn helped ignite Gandhi's successful campaign against the British in India. Gandhi's examp ...

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Anti-racism, Anti-racism - Precursors of anti-racism, Anti-racism - Origins of modern anti-racism, Anti-racism - The revival of anti-racism in the United States, Anti-racism - Anti-racism's influence, Anti-racism - Controversies, Anti-racism - Anti-racist organisations

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Anti-racist ideology has been hugely influential. It has been a catalyst for feminism, anti-war, and anti-imperialist movements. Henry David Thoreau's opposition to the Mexican War, for example, was based in his fear that the U.S. was using the war as an excuse to expand slavery into new territories. Thoreau's response was chronicled in his famous essay "Civil Disobedience", which in turn helped ignite Gandhi's successful campaign against the British in India. Gandhi's examp ...

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Anti-racism, Anti-racism - Precursors of anti-racism, Anti-racism - Origins of modern anti-racism, Anti-racism - The revival of anti-racism in the United States, Anti-racism - Anti-racism's influence, Anti-racism - Controversies, Anti-racism - Anti-racist organizations

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Paige Harrison, a Chicago based author coined the term Female-Led in 2004, and has begun to advance this terminology to describe her approach to an intentional relationship lifestyle model of how many men and women desire to live together. Female-Led is an approach which seeks a broader definition of romance by recognizing that many males want to express their male submissive sexuality by living within a healthy and mutually-satisfying relationship that is based upon male submission to a female. A Female-Led relationship should meet t ...

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Loving Female Authority, Loving Female Authority - Origin, Loving Female Authority - Female-Led Relationships

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North American Indian nations had more of a direct influence on anti-racism. Many Indian nations were very egalitarian in comparison to European nation-states. Moreover, though Indians often saw their culture as superior, they did not tend to make racial distinctions in the same way as Europeans did. Both whites and blacks could -- and did -- join Indian nations as equals. The Indian example was a practical threat to European white supremacy. Some whites preferred living as Indians, while black slaves could become free by escaping to ...

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Anti-racism, Anti-racism - Precursors of anti-racism, Anti-racism - Origins of modern anti-racism, Anti-racism - The revival of anti-racism in the United States, Anti-racism - Anti-racism's influence, Anti-racism - Controversies, Anti-racism - Anti-racist organisations

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Anti-racism showed signs of revival in the 1920s and 1930s. At that time, anthropologists such as Franz Boas, Ruth Benedict, Margaret Mead, and Ashley Montagu argued for the equality of humans across races and cultures. Other whites, too, began to speak out in favor of racial equality; Eleanor Roosevelt, for example, was a very visible advocate for minority rights during this period. Socialist organizations like the wobblies, which gained some popularity during the Great Depression were often explicitly anti-racist. Perhaps more importantly, ...

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Anti-racism, Anti-racism - Precursors of anti-racism, Anti-racism - Origins of modern anti-racism, Anti-racism - The revival of anti-racism in the United States, Anti-racism - Anti-racism's influence, Anti-racism - Controversies, Anti-racism - Anti-racist organisations

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Despite anti-racism's successes, however, some people feel that racism is still a powerful force in Western societies. Proponents of the stronger forms of anti-racism point to ongoing differences in quality of life among different races and say that rooting out discriminatory attitudes and practices is a requirement of simple justice. Thus, they argue that racism still drives such phenomena as the drug war, the prison system, ongoing segregation of housing, racial profiling, police brutality, U.S. imperialism, and possibly the immigration re ...

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Anti-racism, Anti-racism - Precursors of anti-racism, Anti-racism - Origins of modern anti-racism, Anti-racism - The revival of anti-racism in the United States, Anti-racism - Anti-racism's influence, Anti-racism - Controversies, Anti-racism - Anti-racist organisations

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North American Indian nations had more of a direct influence on anti-racism. Many Indian nations were very egalitarian in comparison to European nation-states. Moreover, though Indians often saw their culture as superior, they did not tend to make racial distinctions in the same way as Europeans did. Both whites and blacks could -- and did -- join Indian nations as equals. Some whites preferred living as Indians, while black slaves could become free by escaping to Indian territory. Several Indian nations -- most notably the Seminole - ...

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Anti-racism, Anti-racism - Precursors of anti-racism, Anti-racism - Origins of modern anti-racism, Anti-racism - The revival of anti-racism in the United States, Anti-racism - Anti-racism's influence, Anti-racism - Controversies, Anti-racism - Anti-racist organizations

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Anti-racism showed signs of revival in the 1920s and 1930s. At that time, anthropologists such as Franz Boas, Ruth Benedict, Margaret Mead, and Ashley Montagu argued for the equality of humans across races and cultures. Other whites, too, began to speak out in favor of racial equality; Eleanor Roosevelt, for example, was a very visible advocate for minority rights during this period. Socialist organizations like the wobblies, which gained some popularity during the Great Depression were often explicitly anti-racist. Perhaps more importantly, ...

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Anti-racism, Anti-racism - Precursors of anti-racism, Anti-racism - Origins of modern anti-racism, Anti-racism - The revival of anti-racism in the United States, Anti-racism - Anti-racism's influence, Anti-racism - Controversies, Anti-racism - Anti-racist organizations

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Despite anti-racism's successes, however, some people feel that racism is still a powerful force in Western societies. Proponents of the stronger forms of anti-racism point to ongoing differences in quality of life among different races and say that rooting out discriminatory attitudes and practices is a requirement of simple justice. Thus, they argue that racism still drives such phenomena as the drug war, the prison system, ongoing segregation of housing, racial profiling, police brutality, U.S. imperialism, and possibly the immigration re ...

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Anti-racism, Anti-racism - Precursors of anti-racism, Anti-racism - Origins of modern anti-racism, Anti-racism - The revival of anti-racism in the United States, Anti-racism - Anti-racism's influence, Anti-racism - Controversies, Anti-racism - Anti-racist organizations

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Originally it largely stemmed from a set of observations by feminist ethicists, economists, political scientists and systems scientists, that women's traditional work (e.g. child-raising, caring for sick elders) and occupations (e.g. nursing, teaching) are systematically undervalued with respect to that of men. It is often considered part of Green economics since Greens list feminism as an explicit goal of their political measures, often seeking higher valuations for such work. It is also often considered part of welfare economics or labour ...

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Feminist economics, Feminist economics - Origins, Feminist economics - Useful Texts

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