Category Archives: feminisms

Second Wave Classics: recommended reading

June 15, 2007 · by · in feminism, recommendations, Second Wave

Enjoy. Sexual Politics, Kate Millet (1968) The Politics of Housework, Pat Mainardi (1970 ) Feminism Old Wave and New Wave, Ellen Dubois (1971) Why I Want A Wife, Judy Syfers (1971) The BITCH Manifesto, Jo Freeman (1972) and many more from the Chicago Women’s Liberation Union Herstory Archive. Also: The Dialectic of Sex, Chapter One, […]

FAQ: what do you mean by “Not my Nigel”? (feminist abbreviations/jargon)

April 17, 2007 · by · in clarifying-concepts, FAQ, feminism, feminisms

[2013-01-10 Update: some broken links fixed to point to revised URLs - thanks to the reader who reported!] Like any other field of debate and controversy, a lot of issues and positions in feminism end up being discussed so often that they are abbreviated for convenience into acronyms, initialisms and shorthand phrases that make up […]

Saturday Retrospective: early feminist writings

March 17, 2007 · by · in feminism, First-Wave, Social Justice

Please feel free to leave comments quoting your favourite excerpts from these and why they speak to you. A Vindication of the Rights of Women (1792) by Mary WollestonecraftWith Strictures on Political and Moral Subjects It would be an endless task to trace the variety of meannesses, cares, and sorrows, into which women are plunged […]

FAQ: why do some people talk of "feminisms"?

March 12, 2007 · by · in clarifying-concepts, classism, FAQ, feminism, feminisms, introductory, race & racism, Solidarity & Sisterhood, womanism

Most recently updated 17 March 2007 Because, as was said back on the What is a feminist? and Why are there so many fights between feminists? posts, Feminism is not a monolith. From the soc.feminism Terminologies FAQ compiled in 1993 by Cindy Tittle Moore, here is a following non-exhaustive list of feminisms (read fuller descriptions […]

FAQ: Why are there so many fights between feminists?

March 10, 2007 · by · in clarifying-concepts, classism, discrimination, Family & Work, FAQ, feminisms, gender, identity, introductory, privilege, race & racism, Sexuality & Health, Social Justice, womanism

Quoting from Sage’s FAQ: 1. Why do feminists all disagree? Feminism isn’t a movement, it’s an argument! We all want to raise the status of women to the level of men, to feel safe and respected, and to have a fair and equal chance for all our opinions to be heard. Since the movement is […]

Newer posts →
Follow

Get every new post delivered to your Inbox.

Join 2,242 other followers