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	~~Fuck you bitches~~		Feminism is a big tent, but most (maybe all?) feminists would agree that, at least, feminism "it is the radical notion that women are people". See also [[feminisms]].

			For this site, let's start with anything relating to
			* gender relations
			* [[sex roles]]
			* sexual & reproductive biology
			* women's history
			* feminist perspectives & analyses

			'''Feminism''' is an attitude; a belief; a process.

			"Feminism" might better be described as "[[feminisms]]", and it would include a number of different trends, identities, politics, and historical tendencies:
			* [[Difference feminism]] (aka Different Voice Feminism, Relational Feminism, Cultural Feminism)
			* [[Radical feminism]]
			* [[Dominance feminism]]
			* [[Power feminism]]
			* [[Materialist feminism]]
			* [[Separatist feminism]]
			* [[Cyborg feminism]]
			* [[Sex-positive feminism]]

			Relatedly, "hyphenated" feminism (an FSFwiki neologism, derived from "anarchism without hyphenation") combines feminist analysis with another political analysis.
			* [[Anarcha-feminism]]
			* [[Ecofeminism]]
			* [[Marxist feminism]]
			* [[Socialist feminism]]
			* [[Womanism]]
			* [[Lesbian feminism]]

			The "wave" model of feminism refers to a certain view of feminism, which divides the movement into "peak" periods of activity, generally beginning in the late 19th Century:
			* [[First-wave feminism]]
			* [[Second-wave feminism]]
			* [[Third-wave feminism]]
			This model is questionable for several reasons, notably its strong anglocentric, western perspective and bias, its reductive (a)historicism, its tendencious discontinuity, and its extremely loose definition, insofar as the choice of years or events bounding each wave fluctuates wildly and arbitrarily, as do the characteristics ascribed to them. There is a good deal of chronological snobbery at work in this model, and its overall simplicity contributes to a vast and popular mystification of the progress achieved in and the processes of women's liberation.

			The [[WisCon]] version (at http://www.wiscon.info/faq.php) is also applicable:

			::We define "feminist" broadly to include race and class issues, gay/bisexual/lesbian/transgender issues, and anything else that touches on strong women (authors, artists, readers, characters) in science fiction, fantasy, and horror.


			At the FSFwiki, we are also concerned with the ways in which gender operates with or in relation to other establishments of hierarchy and privilege/oppression based on, for instance, race & ethnicity, nationality, wealth & class, language, education, marital status, sexual preference/orientation/behavior, age, and other physical attributes such as dis/ability, size, "beauty", etc.

			Some hyphenated-feminisms are defined in order to differentiate adherents from other categories of feminist. For instance, "difference feminism" and "equality feminism". Some times, these categories of feminism may not be self-identified, but may in fact by labels assigned by detractors or critics. For instance, so-called "victim feminism", which allegedly focuses too much or solely on the ways in which women are victimized by men or sexism. Such labels can potentially be helpful in identifying threads or strains within some feminist analysis, including over-simplifications within analysis. However, such labels can sometimes be simply harmful, a way of setting up a "straw-feminist" to argue with. One potentially constructive approach is to take a label which has been created (as "victim feminism" was created by anti-feminists) and set up an alternative (such as "power feminism"). The caution would be to not allow anti-feminists to delegitimize entire analyses simply by creating a negative-sounding label; however, to the extent that there is useful analylsis in the label (even if intended to delegitimize feminist analysis), reconfiguring the language with a useful new label may be a way to recapture and frame the debate.





			==Bibliography==

			===Foundational Works of Feminist Theory===

			* "A Vindication of the Rights of Woman" by [[Mary Wollstonecraft]] (1792)
			* Seneca Falls Declaration (1848)
			* "A Room of One's Own" by [[Virginia Woolf]] (1929)
			* ''The Feminine Mystique'' by Betty Friedan (1963)
			* "Black Women's Manifesto" from Double Jeopardy: To Be Black and Female, by Frances M. Beal, Third World Women's Alliance (New York), 1969. (http://www.hartford-hwp.com/archives/45a/196.html)
			* The Combahee River Collective Statement http://historyisaweapon.com/defcon1/combrivercoll.html (1980)
			* "Ain't I a Woman", by [[bell hooks]] (https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Ain%27t_I_a_Woman%3F_%28book%29 ) (1981)


			* See [[List of feminist theorists]]

			===Introductions & Overviews & Feminism 101 Collections===
			* ''Feminisms'', ed. Warhol & Price Herndel


			* [http://blog.shrub.com/archives/tekanji/2006-03-08_146 How to be a Real Nice Guy] by Andrea Rubenstein
			* [http://colours.mahost.org/org/maleprivilege.html The Male Privilege Checklist] by B. Deutsch
			* [http://seamonkey.ed.asu.edu/~mcisaac/emc598ge/Unpacking.html White Privilege: Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack] by Peggy McIntosh

			[[category:About]]
			[[category:Feminism]]
			[[Category:Feminism and critical theory]]


			[[category:FSFwiki admin index\|{{PAGENAME}}]]

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	~~Feminism is a big tent, but most (maybe all?) feminists would agree that, at least, feminism "it is the radical notion that women are people". See also [[feminisms]].~~		Fuck you bitches

	~~For this site, let's start with anything relating to~~
	* gender relations
	* [[sex roles]]
	* sexual & reproductive biology
	* women's history
	* feminist perspectives & analyses

	~~'''Feminism''' is an attitude; a belief; a process.~~

	~~"Feminism" might better be described as "[[feminisms]]", and it would include a number of different trends, identities, politics, and historical tendencies:~~
	* [[Difference feminism]] (aka Different Voice Feminism, Relational Feminism, Cultural Feminism)
	* [[Radical feminism]]
	* [[Dominance feminism]]
	* [[Power feminism]]
	* [[Materialist feminism]]
	* [[Separatist feminism]]
	* [[Cyborg feminism]]
	* [[Sex-positive feminism]]

	~~Relatedly, "hyphenated" feminism (an FSFwiki neologism, derived from "anarchism without hyphenation") combines feminist analysis with another political analysis.~~
	* [[Anarcha-feminism]]
	* [[Ecofeminism]]
	* [[Marxist feminism]]
	* [[Socialist feminism]]
	* [[Womanism]]
	* [[Lesbian feminism]]

	~~The "wave" model of feminism refers to a certain view of feminism, which divides the movement into "peak" periods of activity, generally beginning in the late 19th Century:~~
	* [[First-wave feminism]]
	* [[Second-wave feminism]]
	* [[Third-wave feminism]]
	This model is questionable for several reasons, notably its strong anglocentric, western perspective and bias, its reductive (a)historicism, its tendencious discontinuity, and its extremely loose definition, insofar as the choice of years or events bounding each wave fluctuates wildly and arbitrarily, as do the characteristics ascribed to them. There is a good deal of chronological snobbery at work in this model, and its overall simplicity contributes to a vast and popular mystification of the progress achieved in and the processes of women's liberation.

	~~The [[WisCon]] version (at http://www.wiscon.info/faq.php) is also applicable:~~

	::We define "feminist" broadly to include race and class issues, gay/bisexual/lesbian/transgender issues, and anything else that touches on strong women (authors, artists, readers, characters) in science fiction, fantasy, and horror.


	At the FSFwiki, we are also concerned with the ways in which gender operates with or in relation to other establishments of hierarchy and privilege/oppression based on, for instance, race & ethnicity, nationality, wealth & class, language, education, marital status, sexual preference/orientation/behavior, age, and other physical attributes such as dis/ability, size, "beauty", etc.

	Some hyphenated-feminisms are defined in order to differentiate adherents from other categories of feminist. For instance, "difference feminism" and "equality feminism". Some times, these categories of feminism may not be self-identified, but may in fact by labels assigned by detractors or critics. For instance, so-called "victim feminism", which allegedly focuses too much or solely on the ways in which women are victimized by men or sexism. Such labels can potentially be helpful in identifying threads or strains within some feminist analysis, including over-simplifications within analysis. However, such labels can sometimes be simply harmful, a way of setting up a "straw-feminist" to argue with. One potentially constructive approach is to take a label which has been created (as "victim feminism" was created by anti-feminists) and set up an alternative (such as "power feminism"). The caution would be to not allow anti-feminists to delegitimize entire analyses simply by creating a negative-sounding label; however, to the extent that there is useful analylsis in the label (even if intended to delegitimize feminist analysis), reconfiguring the language with a useful new label may be a way to recapture and frame the debate.





	~~==Bibliography==~~

	~~===Foundational Works of Feminist Theory===~~

	* "A Vindication of the Rights of Woman" by [[Mary Wollstonecraft]] (1792)
	* Seneca Falls Declaration (1848)
	* "A Room of One's Own" by [[Virginia Woolf]] (1929)
	* ''The Feminine Mystique'' by Betty Friedan (1963)
	* "Black Women's Manifesto" from Double Jeopardy: To Be Black and Female, by Frances M. Beal, Third World Women's Alliance (New York), 1969. (http://www.hartford-hwp.com/archives/45a/196.html)
	* The Combahee River Collective Statement http://historyisaweapon.com/defcon1/combrivercoll.html (1980)
	* "Ain't I a Woman", by [[bell hooks]] (https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Ain%27t_I_a_Woman%3F_%28book%29 ) (1981)


	* See [[List of feminist theorists]]

	~~===Introductions & Overviews & Feminism 101 Collections===~~
	* ''Feminisms'', ed. Warhol & Price Herndel


	* [http://blog.shrub.com/archives/tekanji/2006-03-08_146 How to be a Real Nice Guy] by Andrea Rubenstein
	* [http://colours.mahost.org/org/maleprivilege.html The Male Privilege Checklist] by B. Deutsch
	* [http://seamonkey.ed.asu.edu/~mcisaac/emc598ge/Unpacking.html White Privilege: Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack] by Peggy McIntosh

	~~[[category:About]]~~
	~~[[category:Feminism]]~~
	~~[[Category:Feminism and critical theory]]~~


	~~[[category:FSFwiki admin index\|{{PAGENAME}}]]~~

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	===Foundational Works of Feminist Theory===		===Foundational Works of Feminist Theory===

	* "A Vindication of the Rights of Woman" by [[Mary Wollstonecraft]] (1792)		* "A Vindication of the Rights of Woman" by [[Mary Wollstonecraft]] (1792)
	* Seneca Falls Declaration (1848)		* Seneca Falls Declaration (1848)
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	* ''The Feminine Mystique'' by Betty Friedan (1963)		* ''The Feminine Mystique'' by Betty Friedan (1963)
	* "Black Women's Manifesto" from Double Jeopardy: To Be Black and Female, by Frances M. Beal, Third World Women's Alliance (New York), 1969. (http://www.hartford-hwp.com/archives/45a/196.html)		* "Black Women's Manifesto" from Double Jeopardy: To Be Black and Female, by Frances M. Beal, Third World Women's Alliance (New York), 1969. (http://www.hartford-hwp.com/archives/45a/196.html)
	* "~~The Treasure of the City of Ladies~~" by ~~Christine de Pizan~~ (~~1405~~)		* The Combahee River Collective Statement http://historyisaweapon.com/defcon1/combrivercoll.html (1980)
			* "Ain't I a Woman", by [[bell hooks]] (https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Ain%27t_I_a_Woman%3F_%28book%29 ) (1981)


	* See [[List of feminist theorists]]		* See [[List of feminist theorists]]

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	* "A Room of One's Own" by [[Virginia Woolf]] (1929)		* "A Room of One's Own" by [[Virginia Woolf]] (1929)
	* ''The Feminine Mystique'' by Betty Friedan (1963)		* ''The Feminine Mystique'' by Betty Friedan (1963)
			* "Black Women's Manifesto" from Double Jeopardy: To Be Black and Female, by Frances M. Beal, Third World Women's Alliance (New York), 1969. (http://www.hartford-hwp.com/archives/45a/196.html)
	* "The Treasure of the City of Ladies" by Christine de Pizan (1405)		* "The Treasure of the City of Ladies" by Christine de Pizan (1405)
	* See [[List of feminist theorists]]		* See [[List of feminist theorists]]

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	* [[Separatist feminism]]		* [[Separatist feminism]]
	* [[Cyborg feminism]]		* [[Cyborg feminism]]
			* [[Sex-positive feminism]]

	Relatedly, "hyphenated" feminism (an FSFwiki neologism, derived from "anarchism without hyphenation") combines feminist analysis with another political analysis.		Relatedly, "hyphenated" feminism (an FSFwiki neologism, derived from "anarchism without hyphenation") combines feminist analysis with another political analysis.

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	Feminism is a big tent, but most (maybe all?) feminists would agree that, at least, feminism "it is the radical notion that women are people".		Feminism is a big tent, but most (maybe all?) feminists would agree that, at least, feminism "it is the radical notion that women are people".

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	"Feminism" might better be described as "[[feminisms]]", and it would include a number of different trends, identities, politics, and historical tendencies:		"Feminism" might better be described as "[[feminisms]]", and it would include a number of different trends, identities, politics, and historical tendencies:
	* [[Difference feminism]]		* [[Difference feminism]] (aka Different Voice Feminism, Relational Feminism, Cultural Feminism)
	* [[Radical feminism]]		* [[Radical feminism]]
	* [[Dominance feminism]]		* [[Dominance feminism]]
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	* [[Materialist feminism]]		* [[Materialist feminism]]
	* [[Separatist feminism]]		* [[Separatist feminism]]
	* [[Cultural feminism]]
	* [[Cyborg feminism]]		* [[Cyborg feminism]]

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	* [[Difference feminism]]		* [[Difference feminism]]
	* [[Radical feminism]]		* [[Radical feminism]]
			* [[Dominance feminism]]
	* [[Power feminism]]		* [[Power feminism]]
	* [[Materialist feminism]]		* [[Materialist feminism]]
	* [[Separatist feminism]]		* [[Separatist feminism]]
			* [[Cultural feminism]]
	* [[Cyborg feminism]]		* [[Cyborg feminism]]

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