Feminism Inforgraphic

FEMINIST THEORY
Feminism is both an intellectual devotion and a political movement which in all forms
seeks justice for women and the end of sexism. Feminist inquiry offers a broad
variety of viewpoints on social , cultural , economic, and political phenomena, guided
by the desire for social justice. The term "feminism" was used to refer to "the
qualities of women" in the mid-1800s, and it was not until after the First
International Women's Conference in Paris in 1892 that the term was used
frequently in English, following the French term féministe, to believe and promote
equal rights for women based on the principle of gender equality.
Mary Wollstonecraft Sojourner Truth

was a renowned women's rights activist recognized as one of the most famous
who authored A Vindication of the Rights abolitionists and women's rights speeches in
of Woman, 1792, a classic of rationalist American history, “Ain't I a Woman?” She
feminism that is considered the earliest continued to speak out for the rights of
and most important treatise advocating African Americans and women during and
equality for women. after the Civil War.
PIONEERS
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
founded the National Woman
Suffrage Association, which
coordinated the national suffrage
movement
3 BASIC CONCEPTS
The goal of feminism is to challenge the systemic inequalities

women face on a daily basis
What feminists want the world to know, or at least acknowledge is the different
ways men and women are treated, and although there have been great strides
towards equality, women and men are far from playing on the same field.
There isn't just one type of feminism, there are a variety of feminist groups
including: girlie feminist, third-wave feminist, pro-sex feminist, and so on. All these
groups aim to deal with different types of discrimination women, and sometimes
men, face.
In fact, feminism does not

promote discrimination against
MISCONCEPTIONS either gender, contrary to the
common misconception that
feminism has nothing to do with
belittling men. Feminism, not
Women are better than men - female superiority, works for
The intent behind feminism is equality.
equality. That is the chief notion
of the theory and movement, Feminism has made women
similar to a race movement.
Activists and theorists strive for
equal now, and there is no
equality, not disunity. Feminism need for feminists or the
and equality are synonymous current women's movement.
TYPES OF FEMINIST
THEORIES
LIBERAL FEMINISM
❑ Assert the equality of men and women through political and

legal reform
❑ Focuses on women’s ability to show and maintain their
equality through their own actions and choices
❑ All women are capable of asserting their ability to
achieve equality, therefore it is possible for change to
happen without altering the structure of society
❑ Focus on individual freedom and women values
❑ Male and Female are created equal and should not be denial
equality of opportunity because of gender
MARXIST FEMINISM
❑ Sub-type of feminist ideology which focuses on the

distmantling of capitalism as a way to liberate women.
❑ states that economic inequality, dependence, political
confusion and ultimately unhealthy social relations between
men and women are the root of women’s oppression in the
current social context.
❑ Women subordination as a consequence of the introduction
of private property, women became the property of men
and the first oppressed class.
❑ Combines the concept of patriarchy with the key concepts
of marxism
POST-MODERN FEMINISM
❑ Is an approach to feminist theory that incorporated

postmodern and post-struturalist theory, seeing itself as
moving beyond the modernist polaritist of liberal feminism
and radical feminism.
❑ It is the view that “one is not born a woman, but becomes
one” and thus here the focus is on the social and cultural
construction of women by system.
❑ Contest and resist categorization- what ‘woman’ ought to
be- the point us to deconstruct all attempts to fix identity
❑ Focus on differences between women not commonalities

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FEMINIST THEORY

Mary Wollstonecraft Sojourner Truth

The goal of feminism is to challenge the systemic inequalities

In fact, feminism does not

❑ Assert the equality of men and women through political and

❑ Sub-type of feminist ideology which focuses on the

❑ Is an approach to feminist theory that incorporated

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