Nelson has the immediate answer, but what does feminism have to do with it?
Just a broad selection of definitions:
# is a term commonly and quite indiscriminately used. Some of the
currently used definitions are: (a) a doctrine advocating social and
political rights for women equal to those of men; (b) an organized
movement for the attainment of these rights; (c) the assertion of the
claims of women as a group and the body of theory women have created;
(d) belief in the necessity of large-scale social change in order to
increase the power of of women. source
www.ruralwomyn.net/define.html
# Women's movement that seeks to attain equal rights with men in all spheres.
www.undp.am/publications/gender/wsr/Z+++/Glossary.htm
# (a) a range of contemporary theoretical perspectives (political,
sociological, legal, psychoanalytic, literary, philosophical) in which
women's experiences are examined in relation to actual and perceived
differences between the power and status of men and women; (b) a
social justice movement in which issues of particular importance for
women (eg domestic violence, pay equity, globalization) are analysed,
understood, and addressed from feminist perspectives. ...
familypride.uwo.ca/glossary/glossary5.html
# a philosophy embracing economics, politics, literature and indeed
every aspect of the humanities, and which seeks to posit women on an
equal footing with men; and in doing so to show how men have
established and reinforced their historical dominance. The development
of feminism has been rapid since 1945 but was articulated much earlier
by Mary Wollstonecraft and Virginia Woolf.
members.fortunecity.es/fabianvillegas/drama/glossary-f.htm
# The word feminism means many things to many people. Though Catherine
MacKinnon's understanding of what feminism ought to mean does not
represent all feminism, her definition of feminist theory is helpful
as a general characterization: "A theory is feminist to the extent it
is persuaded that women have been unjustly unequal to men because of
the social meaning of their bodies" (35). ...
jamesfaulconer.byu.edu/definitions.htm
# The belief that society is disadvantageous to women, systematically
depriving them of individual choice, political power, economic
opportunity and intellectual recognition.
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