Schneider proposes that by testing an historian against the criteria of the " objective historian " then, even if an historian holds specific political views ( and she gives an example of a well-qualified historian's testimony that was disregarded by a United States court because he was a member of a feminist group ), providing the historian uses the " objective historian " standards, he or she is a " conscientious historian ".

Magnus Hirschfeld's Scientific-Humanitarian Committee, which promoted tolerance for homosexuals in Germany, welcomed lesbian participation, and a surge of lesbian-themed writing and political activism in the German feminist movement became evident.

Researchers may also develop and employ theories and methods from disciplines including cultural studies, rhetoric, philosophy, literary theory, psychology, political science, political economy, economics, sociology, anthropology, social theory, art history and criticism, film theory, feminist theory, and information theory.

Other manners in which many North American pagans have got involved with the movement are through political and / or ecological activism, such as " vegetarian groups, health food stores " or feminist university courses.

The rise of feminism, LGBT social movements and the end of colonial rule and of the political exclusion of such minorities as African Americans and sexual minorities in the developed world has led to feminist, postcolonial, and multicultural thought becoming significant.

in the early ’ 80s, when feminists used the term political correctness, it was used to refer sarcastically to the anti-pornography movement ’ s efforts to define a ‘ feminist sexuality ’ ".

Within groups such as New York Radical Women ( 1967 – 1969 ), no relation to Radical Women, a present-day socialist feminist organization ), which Ellen Willis characterized as " the first women's liberation group in New York City ", a radical feminist ideology began to emerge that declared that " the personal is political " and " sisterhood is powerful ", formulations that arose from these consciousness-raising sessions.

Other critics of radical feminism from the political left, including socialist feminists, strongly disagree with the radical feminist position that the oppression of women is fundamental to all other forms of oppression ; these critics hold that issues of race and of class are as important or more important than issues about gender.

Also, Willis, although very much a part of early radical feminism and continuing to hold that it played a necessary role in placing feminism on the political agenda, later criticised its inability " to integrate a feminist perspective with an overall radical politics ," while viewing this limitation as inevitable in the historical context of the times.

Historically, Unitarian Universalists have often been active in political causes, notably the civil rights movement, the gay rights movement, the social justice movement, and the feminist movement.

Overall, though, the political sensibilities of the label can be said to be left-wing, feminist, and anti-war, and the label initially showed a commitment towards underground punk bands and to representing artists in the Olympia, Washington area.

Cultural studies approaches subjects holistically, combining feminist theory, social theory, political theory, history, philosophy, literary theory, media theory, film / video studies, communication studies, political economy, translation studies, museum studies and art history / criticism to study cultural phenomena in various societies.

That feminist practice was not common at the time, but was later taken up by other political wives, such as Hillary Rodham Clinton.

The serpent, because it represents temptation, sin, and feminist weakness, is used by 19th and early 20th century critics to undermine Cleopatra's political authority and to emphasize the image of Cleopatra as manipulative seductress.

The Bostonians ( 1886 ) is a bittersweet tragicomedy that centres on Basil Ransom, an unbending political conservative from Mississippi ; Olive Chancellor, Ransom's cousin and a zealous Boston feminist ; and Verena Tarrant, a pretty protégée of Olive's in the feminist movement.

* Emily Newell Blair, was an American writer, suffragist, national Democratic Party political leader, a founder of the League of Women Voters and feminist.

* Harriet Shaw Weaver ( 1876 – 1961 ), feminist political activist and patron of James Joyce, was born in Frodsham.

In addition, Eleanor Kerlow's book Poisoned Ivy: How Egos, Ideology, and Power Politics Almost Ruined Harvard Law School criticized the school for a 1980s political dispute between newer and older faculty members over accusations of insensitivity to minority and feminist issues.

According to archaeologist Sam Lucy, " The agendas of feminist archaeology and post-processualism highlighted the importance of social and political factors on supposedly ' objective ' investigation ".

Sartre has also been noted for his relationship with the prominent feminist theorist Simone de Beauvoir.

On the same subject, American feminist theorist and author of Gender Trouble Judith Butler wrote in the scholarly journal Diacritics an essay entitled " Further Reflections on the Conversions of Our Time ", in which she described the shift in these terms:

William Moulton Marston ( May 9, 1893 – May 2, 1947 ), also known by the pen name Charles Moulton, was an American psychologist, feminist theorist, inventor and comic book writer who created the character Wonder Woman.

( 1980 ) is the subject of and also is the title of an avant-garde documentary written and directed by feminist film theorist Laura Mulvey and noted semiologist Peter Wollen.

* Marilyn Frye ( born 1941 ), American philosophy professor and feminist theorist

* Monique Wittig ( 1935 – 2003 ), French author and feminist theorist

The philosophy department is also noted as a first-rate program in 20th century continental philosophy, particularly at the graduate level, according to the Hartman Report The department includes major Heidegger translators David Farrell Krell and William McNeill, and feminist theorist Tina Chanter.

Luce Irigaray ( born 3 May 1930, Blaton, Belgium ) is a Belgian feminist, philosopher, linguist, psychoanalyst, sociologist and cultural theorist.

Laura Mulvey ( born August 15, 1941 ) is a British feminist film theorist.

Écriture féminine-literally " women's writing ," more closely, the inscription of the female body and female difference in language and text-is a strain of feminist literary theory that originated in France in the early 1970s through foundational theorists such as Hélène Cixous, Monique Wittig, Luce Irigaray, Chantal Chawaf, Catherine Clément, and Julia Kristeva ; and was subsequently extended by writers like psychoanalytical theorist Bracha Ettinger, who joined this field in the early 1990s.

Frances Power Cobbe ( 4 December 1822 – 5 April 1904 ) was an Irish writer who lived in Newbridge House and is known today as a social reformer, feminist theorist and pioneer animal rights activist.

The goals of feminist legal theory as defined by leading theorist Claire Dalton, consist of understanding and exploring the female experience, figuring out if law and institutions oppose females, and figuring out what changes can be committed to.

* 5 April-Frances Power Cobbe, social reformer, feminist theorist, pioneer animal rights activist and writer ( born 1822 ).

* The title of the novel L ’ Opoponax, by French feminist writer and theorist Monique Wittig, which describes a rebellious young girl's experiences in a convent school.

The most notable current writer in performative writing is the feminist theatre theorist Peggy Phelan.

Sheila Rowbotham ( born 1943 ) is a British socialist feminist theorist and writer.

Philosopher and feminist theorist Judith Butler has used the concept of performativity in her analysis of gender development, as well as in her analysis of political speech.

Judith Butler, the philosopher and feminist theorist who offered a new, more Continental ( specifically, Foucauldian ) reading of the notion of performativity, which has its roots in linguistics and philosophy of language, describes performativity as “… that reiterative power of discourse to produce the phenomena that it regulates and constrains ” ( Butler 1993 ).

Alice Echols ( a feminist historian and cultural theorist ), credits Redstockings member Brooke Williams with introducing the term cultural feminism in 1975 to describe the depoliticisation of radical feminism.

Noted graduates and associates of the Centre for Contemporary Cultural Studies and the Department of Cultural Studies include: Paul Gilroy ( LSE ) theorist of culture and race, Angela McRobbie ( Goldsmiths ) theorist of consumption, femininity and popular culture, Celia Lurie ( Goldsmiths ) feminist theory and consumption, Jackie Stacey ( University of Manchester, film, cancer culture and science in culture ', Sarah Franklin ( LSE ) science as culture, Debbie Epstein ( University of Cardiff education, childhood and youth studies, sexuality and popular culture, Peter Redman ( The Open University ) masculinities, psychoanalytic theor, Mary Jane Kehily ( The Open University ) childhood and youth studies, Joyce Canaan ( City University, Birmingham ) cultures of higher education, Anoop Nayak ( Newcastle University ) geographies of race, Deborah Lynn Steinberg ( Warwick University ) science cultures, sexuality and popular culture, Hilary Pilkington ( Warwick University ) Russia and youth subcultures, Sue Wright ( Danish Pedagogic University ) cultures of higher education, Hazel Carby ( Yale ) race and literature, David Parker ( Nottingham University ), Mica Nava ( University of East London ) media studies, Chris Griffin ( Bath University ) girls and youth cultures, and Adrian Kear ( Aberystwith University ) performance studies and psychoanalysis, Kevin J. Brehony ( Roehampton University ) historical studies of educational ideologies ..

She is widely regarded as a leading psychoanalytic feminist theorist and is a member of the International Psychoanalytical Association, often speaking at its congresses.

Standpoint theory supports what feminist theorist Sandra Harding calls strong objectivity, or the notion that the perspectives of marginalized and / or oppressed individuals can help to create more objective accounts of the world.

There has been agreements between feminist standpoint theorist that a standpoint is not just a perspective that is occupied simply by the fact of being a woman.