Feminism 101

Feminism is a movement to end sexism, sexist exploitation, and oppression.

Because it did not imply that men were the enemy and focused on naming sexism as the problem.

It implies that all sexist thinking and action, whether perpetuated by females or males, adults or children, is the problem.

<p>The definition includes an understanding of systemic institutionalized sexism.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>To understand feminism, one must necessarily understand sexism.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Black and Third World people, working-class people, older people, and women.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>In simplistic opposition to each other: dominant/subordinate, good/bad, up/down, superior/inferior.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The author is a forty-nine-year-old Black lesbian feminist socialist mother of two, including one boy, and a member of an interracial couple. Her identity as a Black lesbian feminist socialist mother of two and being part of an interracial couple contributes to her experience of being part of a group defined as 'other'.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The members of oppressed, objectified groups.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>In terms of profit rather than in terms of human need.</p> Signup and view all the answers