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Topic: List of notable feminists


  
  List of feminists - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
This is a list of important participants in the development of feminism, listed by feminist ideology.
Kurt Cobain self-proclaimed feminist, in defense of the song Rape Me, which he described as "anti-rape".
Kazimiera Szczuka - Polish feminist, journalist and critic and theoretician of the literature
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/List_of_notable_feminists   (442 words)

  
 Feminist movement - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Feminists are also often proponents of using gender-inclusive language, such as "humanity" instead of "mankind", or "he or she" in place of "he" where the gender is unknown.
The Feminist movement is rooted in the West and especially in the reform movement of the 19th century.
Feminists believe that women are often the subject of intense social pressure to conform to relatively traditional gender expectations.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Women's_Liberation   (3360 words)

  
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The 3 feminist movement is 8 rooted in the 2 West and especially 9 in the reform 5 movement of the 19th 8 century.
Feminist 5 ideas, due to 6 the historical situation and 6 the current legal status 8 of women in 1 certain countries, and many 0 other factors, has impelled 9 feminist ideology to move 8 in different direction to 1 achieve its goals.
Feminists are often proponents 2 of using non-sexist 4 language, using "Ms." 3 to refer to both 0 married and unmarried women, 1 for example, or the 5 ironic use of 6 the term "herstory" 4 instead of "history".
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The feminist movement 1 is rooted in 4 the West and 1 especially in the reform 1 movement of the 8 19th century.
Feminists 6 are often proponents 4 of using non-sexist 3 language, using "Ms." 5 to refer to both 0 married and unmarried 6 women, for example, or 9 the ironic use of 5 the term "herstory" instead 5 of "history".
Feminists 9 are also often 0 proponents of using 0 gender-inclusive language, such as "humanity" instead of 3 "mankind", or "he or 9 she" in place of 1 "he" where the 5 gender is unknown.
www.thub.net /feminism_.htm   (2937 words)

  
 Discover the Wisdom of Mankind on Womens Rights   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
Feminists are also often proponents of using gender-inclusive language, such as "humanity" instead of "mankind", or "he or she" (or other gender-neutral pronouns) in place of "he" where the gender is unknown.
Feminists in most cases advance their desired use of language either to promote what they claim is an equal and respectful treatment of women or to affect the tone of political discourse.
Feminists disagree on the importance of men's issues; some argue that these issues are not important because society is male-dominated, others point out that the fact that a small group of men have much power doesn't contradict the idea that many men (especially poor, non-white, or non-straight men) might be oppressed.
www.blinkbits.com /blinks/womens_rights   (6454 words)

  
 Quotes on Feminism
Although feminism speaks the language of liberation, self-fulfillment, options, and the removal of barriers, these phrases invariably mean their opposites and disguise an agenda at variance with the ideals of a free society.
It is about a socialist, anti-family political movement that encourages women to leave their husbands, kill their children, practice witchcraft, destroy capitalism, and become lesbians.
Feminists have emphasized for a long time the importance of each woman’s individual entity and the necessity of economic independence.
www.notable-quotes.com /f/feminism_quotes.html   (881 words)

  
 Silent Women
Evangelical feminists refuse to accept the Bible's plain words which forbid teaching of men by women, and are unable to adequately explain why Jesus himself did not appoint any women as apostles before his crucifixion, or after his resurrection.
Feminists want us to believe that speaking in their home with her husband to a guest about God makes Priscilla a minister, but common sense will tell us this is a ridiculous exaggeration.
Thus, we see that feminists are grasping at straws in their fervent hope of finding in the Bible the evidence they need to show that it teaches that women were accepted as ministers in first century Christianity.
sol.sci.uop.edu /~jfalward/silent_women.html   (5491 words)

  
 AEJMC Archives -- January 2006, week 5 (#26)
Feminist scholars also have begun to study the wedding industry in terms of the gendered messages contained in wedding rituals, preparation (such as the process of choosing a wedding gown), and mass media.
Only one couple, Christin and Michael, address the traditional symbolism of the wedding as the consummation of their relationship; both are devout Christians in their twenties who openly talk about the fact that they are virgins.
This perspective/approach is based on the concepts of feminism as a belief system consisting of political practices and ideas dedicated to the progress of women and the transformation of patriarchy (Wood, 2003), and Foss and Foss's (1989) description of feminist research as centering on women and regarding gender as the central element studied.
list.msu.edu /cgi-bin/wa?A2=ind0601e&L=aejmc&P=4424   (6378 words)

  
 Cyberspace Music Resources
Everything E-Mail: (Mary Houten-Kemp), mailing list discussion, group newsletters, user and list provider resources, quick reference to commonly used mailing list commands, and information on how to start an electronic list group.
H-Woman: (History of Women), a moderated discussion forum and lively list for scholars and anyone interested in women's history; includes a keyword search of the archives.
not a discussion list; instead, member subscribers receive a daily e-mail profile of a notable (although not always famous) historical woman, providing a platform for recognition of and dissemination about women of achievement who may not be well known or recognized.
thunder1.cudenver.edu /cam/cmr/diss_lists.htm   (1034 words)

  
 Anarchism   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
In the United States, many new immigrants were anarchists; an especially notable group was the large number of Jewish immigrants who had left Russia and Eastern Europe during the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
Feminist anarchism, or anarcha-feminism (a term allegedly created during the 1960s' second-wave feminism), views patriarchy as the first manifestation of hierarchy in human history; thus, the first form of oppression occurred in the dominance of male over female.
Anarcha-feminists then conclude that if feminists are against patriarchy, they must also be against all forms of hierarchy, and therefore must reject the authoritarian nature of the state and capitalism.
anarchism.iqnaut.net   (7454 words)

  
 Wicca - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Each of the four cardinal elements (air, fire, water and earth) are typically assigned a direction, a color, and an elemental spirit.
Gerina Dunwich, an American author whose books (notably, Wicca Craft) were instrumental in the increase in popularity of Wicca in the late 1980s and 1990s, disagrees with the Wiccan concept of threefold return on the grounds that it is inconsistent with more than one law of physics.
This is a specifically feminist, Goddess-oriented faith that had no interest in the Horned God, and discarded Gardnerian-style hierarchy as irrelevant.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Wicca   (5997 words)

  
 OnlineWomen: Resources
The Feminist Majority is committed to empowering women and winning equality through research, the sharing of information of value to feminists everywhere, and effective action.
It is a virtual center for women's studies and women's politics, established by the Feminist Institute of the Heinrich Böll Foundation, Berlin, Germany.
Penelopes is a feminist organization that advocates the use of the Internet and other information and communications technologies in building bridges of solidarity and networking among women of different cultures.
www.onlinewomeninpolitics.org /resources.htm   (4101 words)

  
 Yale University Library: Major Microforms
A complete list through 1860 may be found on microfiche with the directories and also in print in the guide.
A notable feature of this collection is a great number of pamphlets issued during the religious wars, the assassinations of Henry III and Henry IV, and the convening of the Estates-General in 1614-1615.
Persons listed represent every social rank and many professions, the criterion for inclusion being their contributions to the histories of the several peoples.
www.library.yale.edu /rsc/nmrr/microform/list.html   (12906 words)

  
 Keyword   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
Feminist Greer slams Steve's antics By Fiona Hudson in London September 06, 2006 01:00am Article from: The Daily Telegraph AS glowing tributes and praise for Steve Irwin filled newspapers and television screens around the world, fellow Australian Germaine Greer launched a distasteful tirade on the much-loved Crocodile Hunter yesterday.
She feels that too many feminists have abandoned their commitment to freedom and “become cowardly herd animals and grim totalitarian thinkers,” thus failing to confront Islamic terrorism.
A group of French feminists wants to get rid of the word "mademoiselle," or "miss," saying the term turns a female into an inferior being defined by her marital status.
www.freerepublic.com /focus/keyword?k=feminists   (5217 words)

  
 H-SHGAPE Discussion: Symposium on Daniel Rodgers, Atlantic Crossings: Social Politics in a Progressive Age
Feminist analysts have repeatedly exposed this definition as inherently male-biased and criticized it for reproducing precisely that which must be deconstructed, namely the very formation of a "male-breadwinner state." Rodgers' predilection here is all the more unfortunate since he cites but does not adopt Barbara Nelson's notion of a "two-channel welfare state (p.
It is notable that federal aid did not flow to hospitals, clinics, social service organizations, or schools until the designers of the G.I. Bill, the Hill-Burton Act, and then Great Society legislation found ways to direct federal funds to sectarian institutions.
Preferring the safety and specificity of archives, historians all too rarely grapple with "Big Structures, Large Processes and Huge Comparisons."[3] _Atlantic Crossings_ is a notable exception to this generalization and invites comparison between Rodgers' methodology and those used by leading historical sociologists such as Gosta Esping-Andersen who have studied comparative welfare state development.
www.h-net.org /~shgape/disclist/rodgers.html   (14721 words)

  
 Reconcilable Differences on National Review Online
Gas and energy were not even included on the list in some of the earlier polling on the matter.
On the list of organizations he said he belonged to, there was no mention of the ABA.
Faced with an unexpected pregnancy on the one hand and a once-in-a-lifetime professional opportunity on the other, a more selfish woman consulting the feminist manifesto may have chosen the latter exclusively, and then used that powerful perch to give voice to advance the cause of sisterhood (whatever that is).
conways.nationalreview.com   (8911 words)

  
 Notable Quotables -- Media Research Center -- 02/20/1989
I've grown fond of the man, and will even be a little sad to see him go.
My fellow Democrats and feminists will stone me for this, but like Henry Higgins and Eliza Doolittle, I've grown accustomed to his face in the Oval Office....It was easy, all too easy, to like Mr.
Founded in 1987, the MRC is a 501 (c)(3) non profit research and education foundation.
www.mrc.org /notablequotables/1989/nq19890220.asp   (978 words)

  
 Margaret Askew Fell Fox (1614 - 1702), Theologian   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
A list of notable nineteenth-century male Quaker abolitionists reads like a "who's who" of the movement and includes Benjamin Lundy, William Lloyd Garrison, Henry Stanton, James Mott, Theodore Dwight Weld, and the poet John Greenleaf Whittier.
A list of notable nineteenth-century female Quakers includes Prudence Crandall, one of the first people to open a school for African-American girls; Grimke sisters of South Carolina; Abby Kelly Foster; Amelia Bloomer; Lucretia Mott; Susan B. Anthony; Anna Dickinson; Lydia Pinkham; Alice Paul; M. Carey Thomas; Jane Addams; and Emily Balach.
Sunshine for Women encourages you to support our feminist sisters by purchasing their books, reading them, disseminating the ideas they contain, but most especially, by making their book available to our sisters, our daughters, and the community at large by requesting your school library, your public library, and area bookstores to carry their books.
www.pinn.net /~sunshine/whm2001/fox6.html   (816 words)

  
 CVCO - Overbooked: Domestic Violence Booklist
A list of books, many of which received at least one starred review (indicating a work of unusual merit) from the following review sources: Booklist (BL), Publisher's Weekly (PW), Kirkus, and Library Journal (LJ).
His latest book, his richest work yet, will astonish readers with its heartrending story of a woman struggling to reclaim her dignity after marriage to an abusive husband and a worsening drinking problem.
PW Citing numerous recent cases, Jones shows that judges, police, journalists, ane even many feminists still hold women themselves responsible for appeasing men and absorbing their violence.
www.overbooked.org /booklists/subjects/themes/domestic_violence.html   (670 words)

  
 TomRoeser.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
But there is a tendency in “Crain’s Who’s Who” to include some liberal feminist buddies of senior High Up executive Gloria Scoby which may do her good when they get together for cocktails but is not representative of either Chicago or the Chicago business community.
Probably that’s because she is a conservative who has been known to quietly and unobtrusively support causes feminists may dislike.
The “me” liberality and Democratic slant is locally inclusive…from Carol Marin (who doesn’t know politics but who is a visceral feminist and aging TV celebrity …paid $60 grand from WTTW which is supported by public and government funds plus a bundle from Channel 5 not to forget what she is overpaid by the paper.
tomroeser.com /sectionlist.asp?s=&month=4&year=2006   (13048 words)

  
 Women's Issues - refdesk.com
National Women's Hall of Fame - Portraits and profiles of the close to two hundred notable women of the United States (living and deceased) inducted into the Hall of Fame since its founding in 1969.
Susan B. Anthony LIst - "Our organization is dedicated to training pro-life activists and candidates, advocating the passage of pro-life legislation in Congress, working to dispel the myths about abortion, and increasing the percentage of pro-life women in Congress through our Candidate Fund."
Brief biographical sketches are followed by lists of resources within the Library of Congress, some of which are also online.
www.refdesk.com /women.html   (984 words)

  
 Garrett Wollman's Book Recommendations   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
Despite the length of this list, it is by no means comprehensive.
Curiously filed under ``Nature/Gardening'' according to the dust jacket, this book is most notable for its basic evolutionary message: that plants have manipulated us humans, just as they have the other animals, into doing their reproductive bidding, by evolving features we prize such as sweetness, processability, color, and even drug content.
While it is certainly true that the plural of ``anecdote'' is not ``data'', I would not criticize Levine too harshly given the even laxer evidentiary standards employed by the other side (when they even bother with evidence at all).
khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu /booklist.html   (4513 words)

  
 Veterans of the Civil Rights Movement -- List of Oral Histories
This is an almost complete list of interviews in the oral history collection most of which I have at Columbia University Oral History Archives, in New York.
This list, as of now, is to let scholars know what I have collected.
She was a prominent Feminist activist & has written extensively about human rights violations, & has for years been exposing the laundering of money & its flight offshore.
www.crmvet.org /nars/orallist.htm   (11910 words)

  
 Libertarianism - Libertarian Wiki
However, as the population increases, problem of scarcity arises which cause inevitable conflict which prompt the formation of social contract where everyone submit both private property and commons under the rules of laws.
This is also the view of the Libertarian International Organization which see the issue as between coercive government versus voluntary governance, the actual scope of size and functions being a subordinate issue.
Thus instead of a coercive government phone monopoly, there might be a minarchist phone user co-op, minimal government with competing phone companies, or a classical anarchist network of self-subsidized cell phones or a social trust providing the phones on a non-monopoly basis, all in loose and voluntary association as a limited government.
libertarianwiki.org /Libertarianism   (8795 words)

  
 Discussion: Let’s Get Real -- In These Times
First of all, I’d like someone to give me some specifics concerning “extreme liberalism,” “political correctness,” and “feminists who don’t understand or support the second ammendment.” I believe there is a great misunderstanding of what “liberal” means.
And, finally, please, please, please explain to me what is meant by feminists who don’t support the second ammendment.
Now to my letters to ABC and NPR—some of the “mainstream media” who appear (with the notable exception of Keith Olbermann) to be up “See No Evil” creek without a journalistic or patriotic paddle.
www.inthesetimes.com /theittlist/site/main/discuss/1692   (15978 words)

  
 August Book List
Many of them will be updating their listings from time to time, so don't be surprised if they have sold some of the things offered here.
I should include all of these in the Maltshop section of this list, but they are such wonderful true depictions of Maine life in the area where we live, near the coast and on the islands.
There will be an indication of whether it is HB or PB At the end of the main list, there is a section called "Try a Maltshop for a dollar" All of those are PBs and each is $1.00.
www.midcoast.com /~w1gql/bookpage.htm   (21054 words)

  
 ALA | Notable Videos 2000
The following list, selected by the 1999-2000 Notable Video for Adults Committee, represents the best videos produced during the past two years.
In a film as complex and unpredictable as the family it chronicles, Jennifer Fox brings viewers into the lives of a multi-racial couple and their daughters.
Ken Burns and Paul Barnes eloquently tell the story of pioneer feminists Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony against the backdrop of the early women's movement and the struggle for women's suffrage.
www.ala.org /ala/vrt/notablevideos/notablevideos2000.htm   (403 words)

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