Feminism

Feminism is a collection of movements and ideologies aimed at defining, establishing, and defending equal political, economic, and social justice for women. A fundamental concept underlying feminism is that women are an oppressed group, a reality that feminism seeks to highlight and fight against.
Books tagged 'Feminism' deal, directly or indirectly, with feminist philosophy.

See also gender studies.
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We Should All Be Feminists
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A Room of One’s Own
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Men Explain Things to Me
Hood Feminism: Notes from the Women That a Movement Forgot
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The Beauty Myth

Roman Payne
She was free in her wildness. She was a wanderess, a drop of free water. She belonged to no man and to no city
Roman Payne, The Wanderess

Doris Lessing
Ideally, what should be said to every child, repeatedly, throughout his or her school life is something like this: 'You are in the process of being indoctrinated. We have not yet evolved a system of education that is not a system of indoctrination. We are sorry, but it is the best we can do. What you are being taught here is an amalgam of current prejudice and the choices of this particular culture. The slightest look at history will show how impermanent these must be. You are being taught by pe ...more
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