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| Question | Answer |
| First-wave Feminism | The early form of feminism which developed in the mid-nineteenth century and was based on the pursuit of sexual equality in the areas of political and legal rights, particularly suffrage rights |
| Second-wave Feminism | The form of feminism that emerged in the 1960s and 1970s, and was characterized by a more radical concern with 'women's liberation', including and perhaps especially in the private sphere |
| Gender | A social and cultural distinction between males and females, as opposed to sex, which refers to biological and therefore ineradicable differences between men and women |
| Radical feminism | A form of feminism that holds gender divisions to be the most politically significant of social cleavages, and believes that they are rooted in the structures of domestic life |
| Liberal Feminism | A form of feminism that is grounded in the belief that sexual differences are irrelevant to personal worth, and calls for equal rights for women and men in the public sphere |
| Socialist feminism | A form of feminism that links the subordination of women to the dynamics of the capitalist economic system, emphasizing that women's liberation requires a process of radical social change |
| Patriarchy | Literally, rule by the father; often used more generally to describe the dominance of men and the subordination of women in society at large |
| Androgyny | The possession of both male and female characteristics; used to imply that human beings are sexless 'persons' in the sense that sex is irrelevant to their social role or political status |
| Difference feminism | A form of feminism that hold there are deep and possibly ineradicable differences between men and women, whether these are rooted in biology, culture or material experience |
| Essentialism | The belief that biological factors are crucial in determining psychological and behavioural traits |
| Equality feminism | A form of feminism that aspires to the goal of sexual equality, whether this is defined in terms of formal rights, the control of resources, or personal power |
| 'Pro-woman' feminism | A form of feminism that advances a positive image of women's attributes and propensities, usually stressing creativity, caring and human sympathy, and cooperation |
| Cultural feminism | A form of feminism that emphasizes an engagement with a women-centred culture and lifestyle and is typically repelled by the corrupting and aggressive male world of political activism |
| Individualism | A belief in the central importance of the human individual as opposed to social groups or collective bodies |
| Consciousness-raising | Strategies to remodel social identity and challenge cultural inferiority by an emphasis on pride, self-worth and self-assertion |
| Poststructuralism | An intellectual tradition, related to postmodernism, that emphasizes that all ideas and concepts are expressed in language that itself is enmeshed in complex relations of power |
| Discourse | Human interaction, especially communication: discourse may disclose or illustrate power relations |
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