Feminism

Definition of Feminism

The Canada social science dictionary [1] provides the following meaning of Feminism: a diverse political and intellectual movement chiefly developed by women, but having increasing influence with both sexes, that seeks to criticize, re-evaluate and transform the place of women in social organization and in culture. Common to feminists is the assumption that social organization and culture have been dominated by men to the exclusion of women and that this exclusion has been accompanied by a diverse pattern of devaluation and disadvantagement that have marginalized women’s status in most known societies. Consequently, a major area of concern to feminism is the recovery and articulation of women’s’ experience in history and in contemporary societies and a wholesale reconstruction of the fundamental intellectual assumptions of social practices and of many areas of study including especially sociology, psychology, history and other social and humanistic disciplines. See: PATRIARCHY / LIBERAL FEMINISM / RADICAL FEMINISM /ECOFEMINISM in this legal dictionary and in the world encyclopedia of law.

Feminism: Resources

Notes and References

• Drislane, R., & Parkinson, G. (2016). (Concept of) Feminism. Online dictionary of the social sciences. Open University of Canada