feminist politics
Women's rights movement
Feminist politics is political activity, theory, or advocacy centered on achieving gender equality and addressing the systemic disadvantages faced by women.
The term covers everything from electoral campaigns and legislative efforts to grassroots organizing and academic discourse: Her feminist politics shaped her vote on reproductive rights.
It can describe an individual's political orientation or a broader movement's agenda.
- gender theoryAnalysis of sex-based categories
- gender quotasRules ensuring sex representation
- suffrage movementCampaign for voting rights
- women's rightsLegal equality for females
- ecofeminismTheory linking female oppression, ecological destruction
male gaze · rape culture · intersectionality · women's liberation · second wave · girl power · reproductive rights · anti-discrimination laws · social justice · affirmative action · queer theory · glass ceiling · reproductive justice · critical theory · equal pay · pay equity · lean in · bodily autonomy
feminist politicsantifeminism
Opposition to gender equality
patriarchy · male supremacy · misogyny · male chauvinism · sexism
feminist politicstraditionalism
Adherence to inherited customs
social conservatism · religious conservatism · coverture · paleoconservatism · Victorian values
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