# Feminism | | **Feminism** is a range of socio-political movements and ideologies that aim to define and establish the political, economic, personal, and social equality of the sexes. Feminism holds the position that societies prioritize the male point of view and that women are treated unjustly in these societies. Efforts to change this include fighting against gender stereotypes and improving educational, professional, and interpersonal opportunities and outcomes for women. | | --- | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | | | wikipedia:: [Feminism](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feminism) | ## Concepts & Related [[Egalitarianism|Equality]] [[Identity]] [[Care ethics|Ethics of care]] contra justice-based and hierarchical ethical theory via [[Essentialism]] [[Feminism]] [[Psychology]] [[Gender]] [[Human sexuality|Sex]] [[Diversity]] [[Culture]] [[Sociology|Society]] [[Politics]] [[Legal]] [[Culture]] Difference feminism vs merely social constructivist differences [[Essentialism]] vs more [[Existentialism|Existential]] or [[Objectivity|Subjective]] definitions of femininity [[Binary opposition]] [[Patriarchy]] [[Matriarchy]] [[Secular Humanism]] [[Men's rights movement]] [[Discrimination]] [[Intersectionality]] ## People - [[Simone de Beauvoir|de Beauvoir]] - [[Carol Gilligan]] - [[Nel Noddings]] - [[Nietzsche]] ## First Wave Early 20th, late 19th centuries [[Rights]] [[Politics|Political]] [[Voting]] Susan B. Anthony ## Second Wave 1950s & 60s [[Women's Liberation]] [[Legal]] [[Sociology|Social (concept)]] [[Economics]] [[The Second Sex]] [[The Second Shift]] ## Third Wave Early 1990s [[Diversity]] [[Individualism]] [[Identity]] [[Culture]] [[Third wave feminism]] > Third-wave feminism is traced to the emergence of the riot grrrl feminist punk subculture in Olympia, Washington, in the early 1990s,[82][83] and to Anita Hill's televised testimony in 1991—to an all-male, all-white Senate Judiciary Committee—that Clarence Thomas, nominated for the Supreme Court of the United States, had sexually harassed her. The term third wave is credited to Rebecca Walker, who responded to Thomas's appointment to the Supreme Court with an article in Ms. magazine, "Becoming the Third Wave" (1992).[84][85] She wrote: > So I write this as a plea to all women, especially women of my generation: Let Thomas' confirmation serve to remind you, as it did me, that the fight is far from over. Let this dismissal of a woman's experience move you to anger. Turn that outrage into political power. Do not vote for them unless they work for us. Do not have sex with them, do not break bread with them, do not nurture them if they don't prioritize our freedom to control our bodies and our lives. I am not a post-feminism feminist. I am the Third Wave.[84] ## Me Too/Fourth Wave ~2012 [[Social media]] [[violence]] [[Rape]] [[Sexual harassment]]