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| Collective, persuasive efforts to challenge and change existing attitudes, laws, and policies. |
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| Women and men are alike in most respects. Therefore, they should have equal rights, roles and opportunities. This movement advocates for women’s equality in all spheres of life (roots in the 1900s). |
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| Women and men are fundamentally different, and therefore, should have different rights, roles, and opportunities. |
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| A movement that engaged in activism aimed at enlarging women’s political rights. |
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| A movement that grew out of New Left politics that protested the Vietnam War and fought for civil rights. |
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| A group that took the radical feminist idea of putting women first a few steps further to assert that only women who loved and lived with women were really putting women first. |
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| These women define themselves as women-identified to distinguish themselves from heterosexual women whom they see as male-identified. |
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| This movement builds communities in which women live independently in mutual respect and harmony. |
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| Feminists who focus on appreciating women’s traditional activities and contributions and increasing society’s appreciation of women and their contributions to society. |
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| The process of going beyond patriarchal perspectives on history |
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| The movement that unites the intellectual and political strength of feminist thought with ecology’s concerns about our living planet. |
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| National Organization for Women |
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| An organization that works to secure political, professional, and educational equality for women and has now become a public voice for equal rights for women. |
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| Second wave activists who believe that women and men are alike in many ways. They chose “womanist” because that differentiates themselves from “white” feminists. |
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| A feminism that emphasizes multiple systems of domination that affect the lives of women and men. |
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| Power feminists believe that it is self-defeating to focus on the social causes of inequality and the harm that women suffer. These feminists advocate for a kind of feminism which contends that society doesn’t oppress women, because women have the power to control what happens to them. |
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| People who oppose changes in women’s roles, status, rights, or opportunities. |
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| This movement was aimed at preventing women from gaining the right to vote in the U.S. |
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| A movement which stressed the conventional social view of women as sex objects and urged women to devote their energies to making themselves sexually irresistible to men. |
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| A movement rooted in conservative interpretations of biblical teachings and emphasized women’s duty to embody moral purity and submit to their husbands. |
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