Radical feminists in Western society believe that their society is an oppressive patriarchy that primarily oppresses women. Radical feminists seek to abolish this patriarchy. They also believe that the way to deal with patriarchy and oppression of all kinds is to attack the underlying causes of these problems and address the fundamental components of society that support them. Patriarchal theory is not always as single sided as the belief that all men always benefit from the oppression of all women. Patriarchal theory maintains that t ...

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Radical feminism, Radical feminism - Radical feminist theory and ideology, Radical feminism - Radical Feminist Movement, Radical feminism - Roots of radical feminist movement, Radical feminism - Social organisation and aims in the US and Australia, Radical feminism - Radical feminism and Marxism

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Radical feminism, Radical feminism - Radical feminist theory and ideology, Radical feminism - Radical Feminist Movement, Radical feminism - Roots of radical feminist movement, Radical feminism - Social organisation and aims in the US and Australia, Radical feminism - Radical feminism and Marxism

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Some strains of radical feminism have been compared to Marxism in that they describe a "great struggle of history" between two opposed forces. Much like the Marxist struggle between classes (typically the proletariat and bourgeoisie), radical feminism describes a historical struggle between "women" and "men". Radical feminism has had a close, if hostile, relationship with Marxism since the 1970s. Both Marxists and radical feminists seek a total and radical change in social relations; believe themselves to be on the political left; and, are p ...

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Radical feminism - Roots of radical feminist movement. Radical feminism emerged in the late 1960s simultaneously within liberal feminist and working class feminist discussions. In the United States it developed as a response to some of the failings of both the New Left and the liberal feminist National Organization For Women. Initially mainly concentrated in big cities like New York, Chicago, and Boston, radical femini ...

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Radical feminism, Radical feminism - Radical feminist theory and ideology, Radical feminism - Radical Feminist Movement, Radical feminism - Roots of radical feminist movement, Radical feminism - Social organisation and aims in the US and Australia, Radical feminism - Radical feminism and Marxism

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The hardback and paperback editions of The City of Ember and its sequel The People of Sparks are published by Random House. The book contains the following acknowledgments on the copyright page: "My thanks to the friends who read and commented helpfully on my manuscript: Susie Mader, Patrick Daly, Andrew Ramer, Charlotte Muse, Sara Jenkins, Mary Dederer, and Pat Carr. My gratitude to my agent, Nancy Gallt, who brought The City of Ember into light, and my editor, Jim Thomas, who made it the best book it could be. And my love and thanks ...

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Most feminists believe discrimination against women still exists in North American and European nations, as well as worldwide. But there are many ideas within the movement regarding the severity of current problems, what the problems are, and how best to confront them. Extremes on the one hand include some radical feminists such as Mary Daly who argues that human society would be better off with dramatically fewer men. There are also dissidents, such as Christina Hoff Sommers or Camille Paglia, who identify ...

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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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"The Burning Times" is an English term that was invented by Mary Daly and first used in her book, Gyn/Ecology: The Meta-Ethics of Radical Feminism" which was published in 1978. This new Crone-logical term referred to the persecution of women by patriarchy to include both the European Witchhunts as well as the "entire patriarchal rule." The use of the "Burning Times" to refer to the Witchhunts by Neo-Pagans occurred when Starhawk subsequently introduced the ...

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Witch-hunt, Witch-hunt - Early modern Europe, Witch-hunt - Evidence, Witch-hunt - Execution, Witch-hunt - The Burning Times, Witch-hunt - Africa, Witch-hunt - Other parts of the world, Witch-hunt - Sociology, Witch-hunt - Modern usage, Witch-hunt - George Orwell, Witch-hunt - Arthur Miller, Witch-hunt - Modern witchhunts, Witch-hunt - Religious deprogramming, Witch-hunt - Day care sex abuse, Witch-hunt - Involuntary commitment, Witch-hunt - Political confirmation

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Beacon Press, founded in 1854 and a department of the Unitarian Universalist Association, operates as a book publisher in the United States of America. The Beacon Press has a reputation for groundbreaking book publishing. In 1971, it published the "Senator Gravel edition" of The Pentagon Papers for the first time in book form. Other well-known books from Beacon Press have included: Race Matters by Cornel West, Notes of a Native Son by ...

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A goddess is a female deity, in contrast with a male deity known as a "god". A great many cultures have goddesses, sometimes alone, but more often as part of a larger pantheon that includes both of the conventional genders and in some cases even hermaphroditic (or gender neutral) deities. As the concept of monotheism and polytheism can be relativistic, so too can related concepts be culturally misunderstood. The concept of gender as applied to a god and goddess, may connote deeper tendencies of patriarchy and matriarchy, which ...

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Goddess - Ancient Near East
Goddess - Egypt Goddess - Mesopotamia Goddess - Arabia
Goddess - Indo-European religion
Goddess - Hinduism Goddess - Graeco-Roman religion Goddess - Celtic religion Goddess - Germanic religion
Goddess - Abrahamic religions
Goddess - Judaism Goddess - Christianity Goddess - Islam
Goddess - New religious movements
Goddess - Wicca and Neopaganism Goddess - Religious feminism
Goddess - Secular use

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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 - 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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Thealogy is literally the study of the Goddess (Greek θεά, thea, "goddess" + λόγος, logos, "study"). In 1993, Charlotte Caron's definition of thealogy as "reflection on the divine in feminine and feminist terms" appeared, but the term actually originates in the writings of Isaac Bonewits in 1974. Thealogy - First uses. Thealogy - First? usages. In "The Druid Chronicles (Evolved)," privately published in 1976, Isaac Bonewits used "thealogian" to ref ...

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Thealogy - First uses
Thealogy - First? usages Thealogy - Second? usage Thealogy - Bonewits again Thealogy - Growing usage by Carol Christ and Ursula King
Thealogy - Further expansion of thealogy by Starr* Saffa Thealogy - Definition by Charlotte Caron
Thealogy - Melissa Raphael's view
Thealogy - Three interpretations of thealogy
Thealogy - Thealogy as Goddess spirituality Thealogy - Broad interpretation of thealogy Caron Thealogy - A challenge to androcentrism
Thealogy - Linguistic twiddling

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Dianic Wicca, also known as Women's Spirituality, Feminist Spirituality, Feminist Witchcraft, and Feminist Wicca. Dianic Wicca - Beliefs and practices. Dianic Wicca, Dianic Witchcraft, and Feminist Dianic Witchcraft are all common titles for the Neopagan Feminist Dianic tradition. While some Dianics self-identify as Wiccans, some prefer the term Witch or priestess of the Goddess. Dianic Wicca can be very similar to traditional Wicca in practice (see section below for a discussion ...

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Dianic Wicca - Beliefs and practices Dianic Wicca - History Dianic Wicca - Important figures Dianic Wicca - Differences between Dianic Feminist Wicca and Mainstream Wicca

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Lesbian separatism is a form of separatist feminism that incorporates queer nationalism and political lesbianism. Lesbian separatism has inspired various works of science fiction, depicting future utopias in which all men have died out, and advances in reproductive technology have eliminated the need to have men for human reproduction. The Aristasia community is one attempt at translating such utopian lesbian separatism into real life, creating a world of women with two "sexes" (blonde and brunette) which is not only a subject ...

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Separatist feminism, Separatist feminism - Lesbian separatism, Separatist feminism - Controversy, Separatist feminism - Noteworthy separatist feminists

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Goddess - Hinduism. Hinduism is a complex of various belief systems that sees many gods and goddesses as being representative of and/or emanative from a single source, Brahman, understood either as a formless, infinite, impersonal monad in the Advaita tradition or as a dual God in the form of Lakshmi-Vishnu, Radha-Krishna, Devi-Shiva in Dvaita traditions. Shaktas, worshippers of the Goddess, equate this God with Devi, the mother goddess. Such aspects of One God as male God (Shaktiman) and female energy (Shakti), ...

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Goddess, Goddess - Ancient Near East, Goddess - Egypt, Goddess - Mesopotamia, Goddess - Arabia, Goddess - Indo-European religion, Goddess - Hinduism, Goddess - Graeco-Roman religion, Goddess - Celtic religion, Goddess - Germanic religion, Goddess - Abrahamic religions, Goddess - Judaism, Goddess - Christianity, Goddess - Islam, Goddess - New religious movements, Goddess - Wicca and Neopaganism, Goddess - Religious feminism, Goddess - Secular use

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It was common among 1960s and early 1970s United States leftists to write Amerika rather than "America" in referring to the United States. [1], [2], [3], [4], [5] It is likely that this was originally an allusion to the German spelling of America, and intended to be suggestive of Nazism, a hypothesis that the Oxford English Dictionary supports. It may additionally have been an allusion to the title of Franz Kafka's 1927 novel Amerika. In the 1987 TV miniseries Amerika, it denoted a Soviet-conquered America. Detractors sometimes spell ...

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Alternative political spelling, Alternative political spelling - K replacing C, Alternative political spelling - KKK replacing C or K, Alternative political spelling - $ replacing S; € replacing E; £ replacing L, Alternative political spelling - Swastika replacing S, Alternative political spelling - @ replacing A and/or O, Alternative political spelling - * replacing O and A or I and E, Alternative political spelling - Hidden puns, Alternative political spelling - Additional examples

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Inclusive spirituality in the West initially gained ground in 19th century, when North American first-wave feminists such as Matilda Joslyn Gage introduced the idea of female Deity, and Elizabeth Cady Stanton published The Women's Bible. Their contemporary, the Swiss Joseph Jakob Bachofen, increased the attention given in Europe to prehistoric matriarchal Goddess cultures. However this information lay dormant in the North America and much of Europe until second-wave feminism. In addition to Bachofen, second-wave feminists who became interested in the history of religion also referred to the work of H ...

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Goddess movement, Goddess movement - Terminology, Goddess movement - Background, Goddess movement - Use of Mythological Materials, Goddess movement - Wicca or Wicce, Goddess movement - Thealogy, Goddess movement - One or Many?, Goddess movement - Within or Without?, Goddess movement - Ethics, Goddess movement - Prehistoric Cultures, Goddess movement - Earth As Goddess

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Lesbians often attract media attention, particularly in relation to feminism, love and sexual relationships, marriage and parenting. Lesbian - Mainstream broadcast media. In television, the number of lesbian couples portrayed is generally less than the number of gay male couples. Notable lesbian couples on television include: Tara Maclay and Willow Rosenberg in Buffy the Vampire Slayer Lindsay Peterson and Melanie Marcus in Queer as Folk Maia Jefferies and Jay C ...

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Lesbian, Lesbian - Etymology of lesbian, Lesbian - Public policy regarding, Lesbian - Reproduction and parenting rights, Lesbian - Sexuality, Lesbian - Culture, Lesbian - Modern day, Lesbian - Media depictions, Lesbian - Mainstream broadcast media, Lesbian - Cinema, Lesbian - Feminism, Lesbian - Transwomen and trans-inclusion, Lesbian - Magazines, Lesbian - Media depictions

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Dianic Wicca, Dianic Witchcraft, and Feminist Dianic Witchcraft are all common titles for the Neopagan Feminist Dianic tradition. While some Dianics self-identify as Wiccans, some prefer the term Witch or priestess of the Goddess. Dianic Wicca can be very similar to traditional Wicca in practice (see section below for a discussion of their differences), but differs significantly from it in beliefs. Most Dianic Wiccans worship the Goddess only, acknowledging that She is the source of all living and contains all within Her. There are Dianic wi ...

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Dianic Wicca, Dianic Wicca - Beliefs and practices, Dianic Wicca - History, Dianic Wicca - Important figures, Dianic Wicca - Differences between Dianic Feminist Wicca and Mainstream Wicca

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Lesbians often attract media attention, particularly in relation to feminism, love and sexual relationships, marriage and parenting. Lesbian - Mainstream broadcast media. In television, the number of lesbian couples portrayed is generally less than the number of gay male couples. Notable lesbian couples on television include: Tara Maclay and Willow Rosenberg in Buffy the Vampire Slayer Lindsay Peterson and Melanie Marcus in Queer as Folk Maia Jefferies and Jay C ...

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Lesbian, Lesbian - Etymology of lesbian, Lesbian - Public policy, Lesbian - Reproduction and parenting rights, Lesbian - Sexuality, Lesbian - Culture, Lesbian - Media depictions, Lesbian - Mainstream broadcast media, Lesbian - Cinema, Lesbian - Feminism, Lesbian - Transwomen and trans-inclusion, Lesbian - Magazines, Lesbian - Media depictions

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Thealogy - First? usages. In "The Druid Chronicles (Evolved)," privately published in 1976, Isaac Bonewits used "thealogian" to refer to a Wiccan author (Aidan Kelly, aka "C. Taliesin Edwards," who may have given him the term or vice versa) and "theilogy" (defined as "the study of more than one God"). Bonewits also used "theilogy" (and possibly "thealogy," since he thinks he coined them at the same time) in the pages of the widely-distributed "Gnostic ...

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Thealogy, Thealogy - First uses, Thealogy - First? usages, Thealogy - Second? usage, Thealogy - Bonewits again, Thealogy - Growing usage by Carol Christ and Ursula King, Thealogy - Further expansion of thealogy by Starr* Saffa, Thealogy - Definition by Charlotte Caron, Thealogy - Melissa Raphael's view, Thealogy - Three interpretations of thealogy, Thealogy - Thealogy as Goddess spirituality, Thealogy - Broad interpretation of thealogy Caron, Thealogy - A challenge to androcentrism, Thealogy - Linguistic twiddling

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