Women's Studies in Credo: Feminisms and Feminist Theory

From Encyclopedia of Women's AutobiographyComplex, diverse, and increasingly theory based, feminism in the early twenty-first century has become a household word.

From Historical Dictionary of the Lesbian and Gay Liberation Movements
Lesbian-feminism is both a philosophy and political movement that links women's oppression to the institutions of patriarchy and heterosexuality.

FEMINIST ENVIRONMENTALISTS ARGUE that the domination of women by men reflects and reinforces the domination of the environment by society, and that the two are understood to be linked; patriarchal gender relations in society correspond to androcentric environmental ethics.

From Encyclopedia of Race and Racism
Race has been a crucial issue for feminism since its organizational and theoretical beginnings, given the interlocking of race and sex-based oppressions.

From Feminist Philosophies A-Z
Transnational feminism emerged from postcolonial feminism and Third-World feminism and is part of decolonisation.

From Feminist Philosophies A-Z
Friedrich Engels’ The Origin of the Family (1884/1972), a fundamental text in Marxist feminism, argued that the move to private property included a shift from matriarchy to patriarchy and was the initiating point for women’s subordination and oppression.

From Historical Dictionary of the Lesbian and Gay Liberation Movements
Radical feminism goes beyond the liberal feminist fight against sexism in society.

From Encyclopedia of American Studies
Feminist art was not regarded as a movement per se but a revolutionary strategy intended to challenge received assessments of modernism, formal values, and stylistic hierarchies.

From The Reader's Companion to US Women's History
Feminist literary criticism can be defined as the study of literature by women, or the interpretation of any text written with an attention to gender dynamics or a focus on female characters.

From The A-Z of Social Research
Since the emergence of second wave feminism in the late 1960s, feminists have advocated a distinctive approach to research in the social sciences.

From The Penguin Dictionary of Sociology
In general terms, feminist social theory is concerned to understand and explain the subordinate position of women in society by reference to gender differences and specifically in terms of a theory of patriarchy.

From The Reader's Companion to US Women's History
Feminist theology is not primarily reflection on special “feminine” themes in theology and does not intend to create a special subcategory of theology relevant primarily to women. Rather, feminist theology arises from a recognition that traditional theology in Christianity (and other major religions) has been created almost exclusively by males.

From Gender and education: An encyclopedia
Men's studies is the study of gender as it applies to the experience of boys and men. Scholars of men's studies develop theory and carry out research that explores what it means to have a biological designation of being male in the context of culture, society, and human interaction.

From Reader's Guide to the Social Sciences