female autonomy
Bodily sovereignty for women
Female autonomy is a woman's capacity to make independent decisions about her own life—particularly regarding her body, sexuality, reproduction, and economic participation.
The term appears frequently in discussions of reproductive rights, marriage, and workplace equality: Laws restricting abortion undermine female autonomy.
It implies freedom from control by husbands, fathers, religious institutions, or the state.
- bodilyOf the physical form
- bodily integrityControl over one's form
- choiceAct of selecting
- sovereigntySupreme independent authority
- independenceFreedom from external control
financial independence · reproductive · reproductive rights · birth control · consent · saying no · self-determination · agency · liberation · empowerment · suffrage · freedom · rights · dignity · voice · contraception · abortion · marriage
- feminismgender equality, women's rights, patriarchy, women's liberation, sisterhood
- Early Feminismwomen writers
female autonomymale dominance
Men's systemic societal control
patriarchy · coverture · purdah · male supremacy · Gilead
female autonomyhelplessness
Lacking ability to cope
subservience · captivity · learned helplessness · voicelessness
female autonomyforced sterilization
Involuntary surgical infertility
sexual slavery · forced marriage · FGM · genital mutilation · trafficking
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