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4 unusual facts about Feminism


Kali

A variety of writers and thinkers have found Kali an exciting figure for reflection and exploration, notably feminists and participants in New Age spirituality who are attracted to goddess worship.

Molly Kiely

(The child carries Molly Kiely's surname because of Kiely's feminist convictions.)

Multiculturalism without Culture

The topic of multiculturalism is explored by Phillips with reference to such subjects as Feminism, Anthropology, Political Theory, Law, and Philosophy.

Oi Thalassies oi Hadres

It also demonstrates the liberation of women, as part of the feministic ideology that arrives in Greece, as the main female character of the movie is a young woman from the upper class, who forms her own cohort along with her female friends and brings new mores in an old-fashioned local society.


Amal Murkus

Her feminism has led to several conflicts with the Islamic Movement in Israel, which demanded that her performances be cancelled during the Ramadan.

Anna G. Jónasdóttir

Love: A Question for Feminism in the Twenty-First Century (with Ann Ferguson, eds.), Routledge Advances in Feminist Studies and Intersectionality, 2013, ISBN 0415704294

Arqtiq

Arqtiq: A Story of the Marvels at the North Pole is a feminist utopian adventure novel, published in 1899 by its author, Anna Adolph.

Benedetta Carlini

E. Ann Matter, a feminist religious scholar, has an alternative perspective on the case of Benedetta Carlini, and wrote about it in the Journal of Homosexuality in 1990.

Beverley Skeggs

The resulting book Transformations: Thinking Through Feminism (edited with Sara Ahmed, Celia Lury, Jane Kilby and Maureen McNeil) includes chapters by Lauren Berlant, Gayatri Spivak, Donna Haraway, Elspeth Probyn, Lisa Adkins and Vikki Bell.

Butlerian

Judith Butler (born 1956), American philosopher involved with feminism, queer theory, and ethics

Carol Adams

Carol J. Adams (born 1951), American vegan feminist theorist and author of books on eco-feminism

Charmed academia

For instance, Debbie Viguié looks for foundations of the series in classic fairy tales, while Ruth Glick celebrates the series as a progressive step for female power.

Danielle Crittenden

In partnership with the IWF, Crittenden encouraged a "new wave" of feminism, promoting the works of such writers and scholars as Christina Hoff Sommers, Anne Applebaum, Camille Paglia and others.

Difference feminism

Difference feminism has been criticized for claiming that the sexes differ in their style of reasoning by evolutionary psychologist Steven Pinker.

Feminism and technology

Feminist technoscience, a transdisciplinary field that is an amalgamation of the study of feminism and science, technology and society

Feminism in Poland

A major figure in Polish feminism in this period and later was Gabriela Zapolska, whose writings included classics such as the novel, Kaśka Kariatyda (Cathy the Caryatid, 1885–86).

Feminist views on transgenderism and transsexualism

Some feminists such as Janice Raymond and Sheila Jeffreys believe that transgender and transsexual people uphold and reinforce sexist gender roles and the gender binary, while other feminists, such as Judith Butler and Judith Halberstam, believe that transgender and transsexual people challenge repressive gender norms and that transgender politics are fully compatible with feminism.

First same-sex marriage in Spain

Isaías Lafuente (editor in chief of Cadena SER), in his book Agrupémonos Todas, looks at the highlights of feminism in the twentieth century and indicates the story of Marcela and Elisa as one of the most significant events related to the movement occurring in Galicia (another is the figure of Emilia Pardo Bazán).

Francisca Senhorinha da Motta Diniz

Francisca Senhorinha da Motta Diniz, also known as Francisca Diniz (São João del Rey, Minas Gerais - Campanha, Minas Gerais), was a Brazilian teacher who played an important role in feminism.

Girl power

And tellingly, Cameron has done it by mixing the sober feminism of his Terminator and Aliens characters with the sexed-up girl power of a Britney Spears concert.

Guide for the Halakhic Minyan

Tova Hartman, Feminism Encounters Traditional Judaism: Resistance and Accommodation.

Himilce Novas

As a public speaker and visiting professor at educational institutions such as Wellesley College, the University of California, Santa Barbara, and Clark University, Novas has specialized in a wide range of topics, including her own fiction and non-fiction works, Latino culture, feminism, and Gay and Lesbian history and culture.

Hip Mama

The first issue of Hip Mama was published in December, 1993, in Oakland, California, by the founding editor Ariel Gore as a forum for single, urban and feminist mothers.

Iron Rail Book Collective

Categories include Feminism, Anarchism, Ecology and Primitivism, Prisons and Police, Native American Studies, Labor Struggles, Globalization, Capitalist Exploitation and Subculture.

Jane Gallop

In addition to psychoanalysis, especially Jacques Lacan's psychoanalytic theory (particularly in the context of the American and French feminist responses to it), she has written on topics which include psychoanalysis and feminism; the Marquis de Sade; feminist literary criticism; pedagogy; sexual harassment; photography; and queer theory.

Janet E. Courtney

She was the author of a number of books of aspects of feminism as well as several volumes of reminiscences that contain valuable insights into her working life at the Bank of England, The Times and the Encyclopædia Britannica.

Jill Johnston

The event was a vigorous debate on feminism with Norman Mailer, author; Germaine Greer, author; Diana Trilling, literary critic; and Jacqueline Ceballos, National Organization for Women president.

Joanna Russ

The late 1960s and 1970s marked the beginnings of feminist SF scholarship—a field of inquiry that was all but created single-handedly by Russ, who contributed many essays on feminism and science fiction that appeared in journals such as College English and Science Fiction Studies.

Karen J. Warren

She has spoken widely on environmental issues, feminism, critical thinking skills and peace studies in many international locations including Buenos Aires, Gothenburg, Helsinki, Oslo, Manitoba, Melbourne, Moscow, Perth, the U.N. Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro (1992), and San Jose.

Kathleen Higgins

She has published over fifty articles are these topics as well as on beauty, kitsch, virtue, feminism, marketing environmentalism, Indian aesthetics, Chinese philosophy, musical emotion, synesthesia, television, death, and the philosophies of nineteenth-century philosopher Arthur Schopenhauer and contemporary philosophers Arthur C. Danto and Robert C. Solomon.

Kirsten Munk

One of Kirsten's daughters, Countess Leonora Christina, distinguished herself by an internationally adventurous life, followed by imprisonment for decades in Denmark's royal dungeon, and by the posthumous publication of her memoirs, still well regarded both as Scandinavian prose and as early feminist literature.

Leeds Arts Club

The Leeds Arts Club, founded by Leeds school teacher Alfred Orage and Yorkshire textile manufacture Holbrook Jackson, was an iconoclastic organisation that mixed radical socialist and anarchist politics with the philosophy of Friedrich Nietzsche, Suffragette Feminism, the spiritualism of the Theosophical Society and modernist art and poetry into a heady mixture.

Marcelle Karp

In 1993 Karp and Debbie Stoller produced the first issue of Bust, "The Magazine for Women With Something to Get Off Their Chests", now seen as one of the flagship publications of third-wave feminism, mixing feminism with sexuality.

Mariama Bâ

Laura Charlotte Kempen, Mariama Bâ, Rigoberta Menchú, and Postcolonial Feminism, Peter Lang Publishing (2001), ISBN 0-8204-4976-8

Marital rape

Advocates of free love, including early anarcha-feminists such as Voltairine de Cleyre and Emma Goldman, as well as Victoria Woodhull, Thomas Low Nichols, and Mary S. Gove Nichols, joined a critique of marital rape to advocacy of women's autonomy and sexual pleasure.

Mira Schor

Schor has written frequently on issues of gender representation, including “Backlash and Appropriation,” a chapter of The Power of Feminist Art, 1994, an historical overview of the Feminist movement published by Abrams, “Patrilineage”, 2002, republished in The Feminism and Visual Culture Reader edited by Amelia Jones, and on artists such as Ida Applebroog, Mary Kelly, and Ana Mendieta.

Miriam Soljak

Miriam Soljak (née Cummings) (1879 – 1971) was a pioneering New Zealand feminist, communist, unemployed rights activist and supporter of family planning efforts.

Natasha Walter

She is the author of The New Feminism, which was an influential feminist book published by Virago in 1998.

New Amazonia

New Amazonia: A Foretaste of the Future is a feminist utopian novel, written by Elizabeth Burgoyne Corbett and first published in 1889.

Olga Fröbe-Kapteyn

Born in London to a feminist/social activist mother and engineer father, Olga attended the North London Collegiate School, where she was a close friend of Marie Stopes.

Östermalmstorg metro station

The major artwork of the subway station was created by Siri Derkert and symbolises women’s rights, world peace, and the green movement.

Post-structural feminism

Other significant figures in poststructuralist feminism include Monique Wittig, and Julia Kristeva.

Prostitution in Germany

Alice Schwarzer and her branch of sex-negative feminism rejects all prostitution as inherently oppressive and abusive; they favor a law like that in Sweden, where in 1999 after heavy feminist lobbying a coalition of Social Democrats, Greens and leftists outlawed the buying but not the selling of sexual services.

Robert Sheaffer

Robert Sheaffer (born 1949 in Chicago, IL) is a freelance writer and a prominent investigator of unidentified flying objects, Christianity, academic feminism, and many other subjects.

Sylvia Legris

While feminism and eastern thought are components of her intellectual genealogy, her most disciplined activity of textual study has been a sustained reading of Paul Celan.

The Myth of the Vaginal Orgasm

The Myth of the Vaginal Orgasm is a classic feminist work on women's sexuality, written by Anne Koedt, an American feminist, in 1968.

Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit

Gita Sahgal, the writer and journalist on issues of feminism, fundamentalism, and racism, director of prize-winning documentary films, and human rights activist,is her granddaughter.

Worker-communism Unity Party of Iran

It was founded in 2007 by Hekmat's wife, the radical feminist Azar Majedi, by the current leader Ali Javadi, and by Homa Arjomand and Siavash Daneshvar as a spin-off from Worker-Communist Party of Iran.

Year of tha Boomerang

"Tha sistas are in so check tha front line/It seems I spent the 80s in a Haiti state of mind"


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