Feminism has driven the creation of a considerable body of action-oriented science fiction with female protagonists: Wonder Woman ( actually originally created in 1941 ) and The Bionic Woman during the time of the organized women's movement in the 1970s ; Terminator 2 and the Alien tetralogy in the 1980s ; and Xena, Warrior Princess, comic book character Red Sonja and Buffy the Vampire Slayer.

Lesbian separatism and Separatist Feminism have inspired the creation of art and culture reflective of its visions of female-centered societies, including various works of lesbian science fiction where new technologies in human reproductive strategy have created Lesbian utopias, eliminating the need to have men for human reproduction.

She has also “ been responsible for the production of some twenty-two books … and at least five hundred articles .” “ Rosemary Ruether has written on the question of Christian credibility, with particular attention to ecclesiology and its engagement with church-world conflicts ; Jewish-Christian relations …; politics and religion in America ; and Feminism.

Christina Hoff Sommers has been a vocal critic of the concept of herstory, and presented her argument against the movement in her 1994 book, Who Stole Feminism ?.

Also, IUSY has two permanent working groups – Feminism and LGBT – that deal with issues involving those specific themes.

Feminism in Norway has its political origins in the movement for women's suffrage.

In " Deconstructing Equality-versus-Difference: Or, the Uses of Poststructuralist Theory for Feminism ," Joan W. Scott describes how language has been used as a way to understand the world, however, " post-structuralists insist that words and texts have no fixed or intrinsic meanings, that there is no transparent or self-evident relationship between them and either ideas or things, no basic or ultimate correspondence between language and the world " Thus, while language has been used to create binaries ( such as male / female ), post-structuralists see these binaries as artificial constructs created to maintain the power of dominant groups.

The work of earlier Catholic theologians on masculinity and femininity, such as Hildegard of Bingen, Edith Stein and G. E. M. Anscombe, has also become recently influential in the development of New Feminism.

Martha Fineman founded the Feminism and Legal Theory Project at the University of Wisconsin Law School in 1984, to explore the relationships between feminist theory, practice, and law, which has been instrumental in the development of feminist legal theory.

His wife, F. Carolyn Graglia, is an author who has written a book critical of feminism entitled Domestic Tranquility: A Brief Against Feminism.

It originally began as a cell in larger project called Feminism Unfinished: the cell was called Public Feelings, and has grown in other locales as well, notably Austin, Texas and New York City.

The current concept has its roots in socialist and Marxist feminism ; Rosemary Hennessay and Chrys Ingraham, editors of Materialist Feminism: A Reader in Class, Difference, and Women ’ s Lives, describe material feminism as the " conjuncture of several discourses — historical materialism, Marxist and radical feminism, as well as postmodernist and psychoanalytic theories of meaning and subjectivity .”

She has published articles and criticism in such journals as West Coast Line, Canadian Literature, The Capilano Review, English Studies in Canada and Fuse Magazine, as well as several anthologies including Asian Canadian Writing Beyond Autoethnography and Bringing it Home: Women Talk About Feminism in Their Lives.

She has written a number of influential books, including The Reproduction of Mothering: Psychoanalysis and the Sociology of Gender ( 1978 ); Feminism and Psychoanalytic Theory ( 1989 ); Femininities, Masculinities, Sexualities: Freud and Beyond ( 1994 ); and The Power of Feelings: Personal Meaning in Psychoanalysis, Gender, and Culture ( 1999 ).

Feminism has been seen by some as having a special affinity for the postmodern through a shared interest in ( the theoretical implications of ) social practices and multiple voices.

In addition to articles she has written for publications such as Artforum Magazine and Art Lies, her canonical essay, " Olympia's Maid: Reclaiming Black Female Subjectivity ," has now been anthologized numerous times, most recently in Amelia Jones, ed, The Feminism and Visual Culture Reader, 2nd Edition, Routledge, 2010.

Throughout her career Wilkinson has co-authored four books with Kitzinger, and serves as the editor of the academic journal Feminism & Psychology.

Cyberfeminism also has strong connections with the DIY feminism movement, as noted in the seminal text DIY Feminism, a grass roots movement that encourages active participation, especially as a solo practitioner or a small collective.

Feminism, a theme in many of Atwood's novels, is explored through the perspective of the female narrative, exposing the ways women are marginalized in their professional and private lives.

Dawn Keetley and John Pettigrew, authors of Public Women, Public Words: A Documentary History of American Feminism, called it a " mesmerizing theme song ".

Almost all the women who attended this service walked out with her, as well as a few men .” Her works include: The Church and the Second Sex ( 1968 ), Beyond God the Father ( 1973 ), Gyn / ecology: The Metaethics of Radical Feminism ( 1978 ), Pure Lust: Elemental Feminist Philosophy ( 1984 ), Webster ’ s First Intergalactic Wickedary of the English Language ( 1987 ), and Outercourse: The Be-Dazzling Voyage ( 1992 ).

Other works include being the author of Feminism and Marxism in the 90's and South Africa: Which Road to Liberation?

Several prominent academics like Henry Louis Gates, Jr. and Addison Gayle, Jr., established a new “ Black Aesthetic ” that “ placed the sources of contemporary black literature and culture in the communal music and oral folk tradition .” This new respect coupled with a growing Black Feminism led by Mary Helen Washington, Audre Lorde, Alice Walker, and others would create the space for the rediscovery of Hurston.

Feminism is a collection of movements and ideologies aimed at defining, establishing, and defending equal political, economic, and social rights for women.

* Interface: a journal for and about social movements special issue ( 3 / 2: November 2011 ) " Feminism, women's movements and women in movement ".

* Gillian Rose ( born 1962 ), most famous for her critique: Feminism & Geography: The Limits of Geographical Knowledge ( 1993 ), which was one of the first moves towards a development of feminist geography.

Academic Alice Echols, in her 1989 book Daring To Be Bad: Radical Feminism in America, 1967 – 1975, argued that radical feminist Valerie Solanas, best known for her attempted murder of Andy Warhol in 1968, displayed an extreme level of misandry compared to other radical feminists of the time in her tract, The SCUM Manifesto.

Still Missing: Amelia Earhart and the Search for Modern Feminism.

: The Growing Threat to Civil Liberties from Antidiscrimination Laws, Peace and Freedom: A Foreign Policy for a Constitutional Republic, and Reclaiming the Mainstream: Individualist Feminism Reconsidered.

* Liberty for Women: Freedom and Feminism in the Twenty-First Century, May 1, 2002 ISBN 1-56663-435-0

" Feminism and critical educational gerontology: An agenda for good practice ".

In The Supergirls: Fashion, Feminism, Fantasy, and the History of Comic Book Heroines ( 2009 ), author Mike Madrid states that what set Barbara Gordon as Batgirl apart from other female characters was her motivation for crime-fighting.

In The Supergirls: Fashion, Feminism, Fantasy, and the History of Comic Book Heroines ( 2009 ), author Mike Madrid states that what set Barbara Gordon as Batgirl apart from other female characters was her motivation for crime-fighting.

CWLU's " Social Feminism: A Strategy for the Women's Movement ," 1972

In 1972 the Chicago Women's Liberation Union published " Socialist Feminism: A Strategy for the Women's Movement ," which is believed to be the first to use the term " socialist feminism ," in publication.

* Capitalist Patriarchy and the Case for Socialist Feminism

* Entry for Socialist Feminism in the Reader's Companion to U. S. Women's History

* Socialist Feminism: A Strategy for the Women's Movement By Hyde Park Chapter, Chicago Women's Liberation Union

As in other countries, Feminism in the United Kingdom seeks to establish political, social, and economic equality for women.

One source for the earliest days of the more radically feminist roots of the WLM is Alice Echols, Daring to Be BAD: Radical Feminism in America 1967-1975 ( 1989 ).

IWF Vice-President for Policy and Economics Carrie Lukas wrote the 2006 book The Politically Incorrect Guide to Women, Sex, and Feminism, the seventh book in the Politically Incorrect Guide series from Regnery Press.

NGUC sponsored a series of events, including a return visit and lecture by biographer Barbara Taylor ; a panel discussion about women and power, between female politicians Diane Abbott MP, Jean Lambert MEP, and Emily Thornberry MP ; an art exhibition entitled Mother of Feminism ; a concert featuring Carol Grimes and Adey Grummet to raise money for Stop the Traffik, an anti-trafficking charity ; a tombstone tribute at St Pancras Old Church ; a birthday cake baked by men ; and other activities.