what does the word feminist mean?

Answer 1

It means 'STUPID', because that's what it is. Men and women aren't equal in abilities, nor will they ever be. They're equal human beings.

Answer 2

A feminist is a man or a woman who believes women are equal in every way and deserves the same rights and freedoms as a man.

It's nothing "high-tech" just basic humanity.

Answer 3

A feminist is one that strongly supports the principle that women should have equal rights and opportunities as the men.

Answer 4

A Feminist is one who supports and fights for the genuine cause of women.


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Answer 5

It used to mean a person who stood up for equal rights of women. Nowadays, it stands for womens rights according to the liberal left.

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Answer 6

It can mean a variety of things. Roughly speaking, though, we can categorise three types, that can sometimes come into confict with each other.

--'First wave'-- like...the suffragettes.
-an early form of feminsm that is less an analysis of how gender is constructed, or any celebration of female form, bodily rights etc. but rather an attempt to claim masculine definitons for women, or male rights.
-modern feminism rejects these ideas, as they regard the male form as a political ideal to be aspired to, and continue, in fact reinforce, patriarchal rhetoric.
- that is, these people did celebrate femininity, nor questioned it's cultural construction, but continued to think in relatively gender-orthodox terms

--Second wave-- i.e. um...Cixious
-a more modern feminism, celebrating femininity
-relies on a humanist conception of gender, which is rejected by many academics nowadays. These feminists relied on the very misogynistic rhetoric they were supposedly attacking.
-a basic example: the late 19th century idea of women as essentially irrational -> second wave feminist idea that women are intrinsically 'anti-rationalist', but that is to be celebrated, that rationality is to be rejected. Nevertheless, in such models, women are actually less emancipated than given means to celebrate their positions.
-feminism form the late 70's is more like this than it would like to confess
-takes the experiences of white, middle class, American women and applies them to all women from all time; many modern feminists argue that these theorists neglected the experiences of women in cultures other than their own
-they rely upon orthodox differentiations of gender, rather than questioning

--'Third wave'-- like, say, Judith Butler
-question how gender and sexuality or culturally constructed, and may be experienced differently for people in a wide variety of socio-economic circumstances.
-argue that 'masculinty' and 'femininity' are arbitrary differentiations that have been thought of differently in a wide variety of cultures
-however, the very recent theorists (Elizabeth Grosz is a name to look into here) have questioned how perhaps in such schemes, the body is regarded as passive recipient of cultural figuring, rather than possessing its own capacity to defy formulation.

Phew...there you go!

Answer 7

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Answer 8

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Answer 9

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