Feminist film theory is theoretical film criticism derived from feminist politics and feminist theory.

* Feminist criticism – rooted in the feminist movement, which seeks to improve conditions for women and change existing power relations between men and women.

Feminist literary criticism is literary criticism informed by feminist theory, or by the politics of feminism more broadly.

These include Feminist, and post-modernist criticism, historic, sociological and psychological analyses, and literary analysis.

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Feminist criticism of art, film, and literature has often examined gender-oriented characterization and plot, including the common " damsel in distress " trope.

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Feminist criticism of the Bible utilizes the same means and essentially strives for the same ends as feminist literary criticism.

Feminist literary criticism is literary criticism informed by feminist theories or politics.

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" It refers to a criticism that constructs " a female framework for the analysis of women's literature, to develop new models based on the study of female experience, rather than to adapt male models and theories " ( quoted by Groden and Kreiswurth from " Toward a Feminist Poetics ," New Feminist Criticism, 131 ).

Leading heterodox thinkers have moved beyond the established paradigms of Austrian, Feminist, Institutional-Evolutionary, Marxian, Post Keynesian, Radical, Social, and Sraffian economics — opening up new lines of analysis, criticism, and dialogue among dissenting schools of thought.

Feminist theory, in respect to Antony and Cleopatra, often looks at Shakespeare ’ s use of language when describing Rome and Egypt.

Feminist advocacy for social change has done much to relax the constrictions of gender roles on men and women, but they are still heavily policed.

Feminist theory, which emerged from these feminist movements, aims to understand the nature of gender inequality by examining women's social roles and lived experience ; it has developed theories in a variety of disciplines in order to respond to issues such as the social construction of sex and gender.

Feminist theory has explored the social construction of masculinity and its implications for the goal of gender equality.

Feminist theorists argue that she goes mad with guilt because, when Hamlet kills her father, he has fulfilled her sexual desire to have Hamlet kill her father so they can be together.

In the book, Limbaugh also stated that the word refers to unspecified women whose goal is to allow as many abortions as possible, saying at one point that there were fewer than 25 " true feminazis " in the U. S. Limbaugh has used the term to refer to members of the National Center for Women and Policing, the Feminist Majority Foundation, the National Organization for Women, and other organizations at the March for Women's Lives, a large pro-choice demonstration.

Feminist theology in the 20th and 21st centuries has developed along similar lines.

Feminist economists say that mainstream economics has been disproportionately developed by European-descended, heterosexual, middle and upper-middle class men, and that this has led to suppression of the life experiences of the full diversity of the world's people, especially women, children and those in non-traditional families.

The civil liberties organization Foundation for Individual Rights in Education has named Colorado College on its Red Alert list for several years over its treatment of two students who distributed a satirical flyer which parodied the college's Feminist and Gender Studies newsletter.

Feminist authors Christina Hoff Sommers and Naomi Wolf write that women's sexual liberation has led many women to a role reversal, whereby they view men as sex objects, in a manner similar to what they criticize men's treatment of women.

Feminist anthropologist Sally Slocum argues that there has been a longstanding male bias in anthropological thought as evidenced by terminology used when referring to society, culture and humankind.

Feminist activism not only focuses on women ’ s issues but has spread throughout many other movements including ( but not limited to ) environmental issues, body politics, feminist art, identity issues, reproductive rights, gender issues, animal rights, homosexual rights, and ethnic minority rights.

She was president of the League from 1995 to 1997 and has served as chair of its Education Committee and Feminist Caucus.

Other forms of doing historical theology would be for example Feminist Theology ; African-American Theology as developed by Martin Luther King in the fight for civil rights in the United States ; African Liberation Theology, that has mostly been applied to South Africa in the fight against apartheid ; and Indigenous Theology that stems from Bartolomé de las Casas and other missionaries in the first Spanish colonies in the Americas in the 16th century.

Postmodern theology seeks to respond to the challenges of post modern and deconstructionist thought, and has included the death of God movement, Process Theology, Feminist theology and Queer Theology and most importantly Neo-orthodox Theology.

Since 2001, the magazine has been published by the Feminist Majority Foundation, based in Los Angeles and Arlington, Virginia.

In the Spring 2002 issue commemorating the magazine's 30th year, Gloria Steinem and Feminist Majority president Eleanor Smeal noted the magazine's increased ability to " share research and resources, expand investigative journalism, and bring its readers the personal experience that has always been the source of the women's health movement.

Walker has received several awards for her work, including the Women of Distinction Award from the American Association of University Women, " Feminist of the Year " award from the Fund for the Feminist Majority, the " Paz y Justicia " award from the Vanguard Public Foundation, the " Intrepid Award " from the National Organization for Women, the " Champion of Choice " award from the California Abortion Rights Action League and the " Women Who Could Be President Award " from the League of Women Voters.

Launched in Vancouver in 1975 by the West Coast Feminist Literary Magazine Publishing Society, the journal has always been operated by an all-volunteer editorial collective.

Feminist psychology critiques the fact that historically psychological research has been done from a male perspective with the view that males are the norm.

Feminist writers have suggested that the less prejudicial usage of the Old English sources reflects more egalitarian notions of gender at the time.

Feminist economics ultimately seeks to produce a more gender inclusive economics.

Feminist economists argue that people are more complex than such models, and call for " a more holistic vision of an economic actor, which includes group interactions and actions motivated by factors other than greed.

Feminist macroeconomic inquiries focus on international capital flows, fiscal austerity, deregulation and privatization, monetary policy, international trade and more.

Feminist economists say too many theories claim to present universal principles but actually present a masculine viewpoint in the guise of a " view from nowhere ," so more varied sources of data collection are needed to mediate those issues.

Hacking observes, " the label ' social constructionism ' is more code than description " of every Leftist, Marxist, Freudian, and Feminist PostModernist to call into question every moral, sex, gender, power, and deviant claim as just another essentialist claim — including the claim that members of the male and female sex are inherently different, rather than historically and socially constructed.

In the 1994 issue of Feminist Review, Professor Amalia Ziv of Ben-Gurion University described the trilogy as " definitely more of a comedy " when compared to darker BDSM novels such as Story of O, and commented that " like all comedies, it ends in marriage ".

In her article Performative Acts and Gender Constitution: An Essay in Phenomenology and Feminist Theory, Butler explains that if gender is something that sexed bodies assimilate to in order to follow the societal codes of what is appropriate behavior, then those actions can be conceptualized differently to allow more flexibility for individuals.

In 2005, two more collections of her speeches and article were published – Exquisite Rebel: The Essays of Voltairine De Cleyre – Anarchist, Feminist, Genius, edited by Presley and Crispin Sartwell and published by SUNY Press, and the other, Gates of Freedom: Voltairine De Cleyre and the Revolution of the Mind, from University of Michigan Press.

Feminist critic Lucy Lippard stated, " My own initial experience was strongly emotional … The longer I spent with the piece, the more I became addicted to its intricate detail and hidden meanings ", and defended the work as an excellent example of the feminist effort.

While the group would never equal that incredible run of success, they went on to score eight more Top Ten hits — all consecutively — through 1991, when their run came to a close with the humorous number eight hit " Men ," which is actively used for the " Feminist Update " on The Rush Limbaugh Show.