Talk:Feminism/Draft of article as trimmed July 2010
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- The list of languages into which translated appears at the bottom, not on the left. I assume that's because of the namespace and nothing about that needs fixing before going live.
- External links to a couple of other Wikimedia projects refer not to feminism per se but to this draft, but nothing about that needs fixing before going live.
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Feminism refers to political, cultural, and economic movements aimed at establishing greater, equal, or, some argue, superior rights and participation in society for women and girls, including legal protection and inclusion in politics, business, and scholarship, and recognition and building of women's cultures and power. Feminists are persons of either sex, or females only (in which case males may be profeminists), who believe in feminism.
Feminist theory emerged from these feminist movements.[1][2] It includes some of the sociological theories and philosophies concerned with issues of gender difference and is manifest in a variety of disciplines, such as feminist geography, feminist history, feminist theology, and feminist literary criticism as well as women's literature, music, film, and other media. Feminist activists have campaigned for women's rights[3][4][5][6][7] and interests—such as legal rights of contract, property rights, and voting rights—while also promoting women's rights to bodily integrity and autonomy and reproductive rights including abortion rights. They have struggled to protect women and girls from domestic violence, sexual harassment, and sexual assault.[3][8][9] On economic matters, feminists have advocated for workplace rights, including maternity leave and equal pay, and against other forms of gender-specific discrimination against women.[10][11][12]
During much of its history, feminist movements and theoretical developments were led predominantly by middle-class white women from Western Europe and North America.[13][14][15] However, at least since Sojourner Truth's 1851 speech to American feminists, women of other races have proposed alternative feminisms.[14] This trend accelerated in the 1960s with the civil rights movement in the United States and the collapse of European colonialism in Africa, the Caribbean, parts of Latin America, and Southeast Asia. Since that time, women in developing nations and former colonies and who are of color or various ethnicities or living in poverty have proposed additional feminisms.[15]