Feminism

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

For this site, let's start with anything relating to

• gender relations
• sex roles
• sexual & reproductive biology
• women's history
• feminist perspectives & analyses

"Feminism" might better be described as "feminisms", and it would include a number of different trends, identities, politics, and historical tendencies:

• First Wave Feminism
• Second Wave Feminism
• Third Wave Feminism
• Difference Feminism
• Radical Feminism

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.

We are also concerned with the ways in which gender operates with or in relation to other types of hierarchies and privileges/oppressions; for instance, race & ethnicity, nationality, wealth & class, language, education, marital status, sexual preference/orientation/behavior, age.

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)

Introductions & Overviews & Feminism 101 Collections

• Feminisms, ed. Warhol & Price Herndel