Feminist economists also examine early economic thinkers ' interaction or lack of interaction with gender and women's issues, showing examples of women's historical engagement with economic thought.

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.

Feminist legal theory is based on the belief that the law has been instrumental in women's historical subordination.

Feminist theologians have supported the use of non-or multi-gendered language for God, arguing that language powerfully impacts belief about the behavior and essence of God.

Category: Feminist theologians

Category: Feminist theologians

Category: Feminist theologians

Category: Feminist theologians

Category: Feminist theologians

Category: Feminist theologians

Feminist economics is the critical study of economics including its methodology, epistemology, history and empirical research, attempting to overcome pervasive androcentric ( male and patriarchal ) biases.

Feminist economics also includes study of norms relevant to economics, challenging the traditional view that material incentives will reliably provide the goods we want and need ( consumer sovereignty ), which does not hold true for many people.

Feminist economists study both paid and unpaid care work.

Two years earlier he had published the first study of Margaret Atwood's feminism: Margaret Atwood: A Feminist Poetics.

Her most famous book, as an Islamic feminist, The Veil and the Male Elite: A Feminist Interpretation of Islam, is a quasi-historical study of role of the wives of Muhammad.

Feminist geography is an approach in human geography which applies the theories, methods and critiques of feminism to the study of the human environment, society and geographical space.

In addition to societal studies, Feminist Geography also critiques Human Geography and other academic disciplines, arguing that academic structures have been traditionally characterized by a patriarchal perspective, and that contemporary studies which do not confront the nature of previous work reinforce the masculine bias of academic study.

Ovington wrote several books and articles, including a study of black Manhattan, Half a Man ( 1911 ); Status of the Negro in the United States ( 1913 ); Socialism and the Feminist Movement ( 1914 ); an anthology for black children, The Upward Path ( 1919 ); biographical sketches of prominent African Americans, Portraits in Color ( 1927 ); an autobiography, Reminiscences ( 1932 ); and a history of the NAACP, The Walls Came Tumbling Down ( 1947 ).

" 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 ).

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 science fiction is a sub-genre of science fiction which tends to deal with women's roles in society.

Feminist science fiction poses questions about social issues such as how society constructs gender roles, the role reproduction plays in defining gender and the unequal political and personal power of men and women.

Fenton judges the Parsons based on their attractiveness and is agitated when they do not “ fulfil stereotypical female roles ,” as author Anne Cranny-Francis describes it ( Feminist Science Fiction, 30 ).

* Feminist science fiction poses questions about social issues such as how society constructs gender roles, the role reproduction plays in defining gender and the unequal political and personal power of men and women.

* The Jewish Orthodox Feminist Alliance ( JOFA ) a forum for enhancing the roles of Orthodox Jewish women within the Orthodox community, and reducing Orthodox religious disabilities against women.

Feminist critics, however, have criticized her selection as reinforcing sexist stereotypes about women's roles.

Fatimah Rifaat, unlike the prominent Egyptian Feminist Nawwal al-Sadawi, focused her writing on women in traditional Islamic roles.

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 ).

An exception is Dianic Wicca ( also known as Feminist Witchcraft and / or Feminist Spirituality ), a branch of Wicca practiced almost exclusively by women, most of whom are heterosexual, preferring to practice their spirituality with other women in pursuit of Women's Mysteries.

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

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 critics believe that it adopts archaic attitudes toward women, such as worshiping them symbolically through stereotypes and sexist norms.

) Feminist theorists: Three centuries of key women thinkers, Pantheon 1983, pp. 124 – 136.

) Feminist futures: Re-imagining women, culture and development ( Zed Books, NY, 2003 ).

While detailed feminist critiques of traditional economics appeared in the 1970s and 80s, such as those of the Committee on the Status of Women in the Economics Profession ( CSWEP ) in 1972, feminist economics rapidly developed with the initiation of networks to support the careers of women in economics such as the Development Alternatives with Women for a New Era ( DAWN ) and in 1994, with the founding of the International Association for Feminist Economics ( IAFFE ) and the journal Feminist Economics.

" Feminist economics holds that such a reformation provides a better description of the actual experiences of both men and women in the market, arguing that mainstream economics overemphasizes the role of individualism, competition and selfishness of all actors.

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.

Feminist critics have attacked the scene as representative of an anti-feminist viewpoint in Rand's works that makes women subservient to men.

Feminist scholars say that the objectification of women involves the act of disregarding the personal and intellectual abilities and capabilities of a female ; and reducing a woman's worth or role in society to that of an instrument for the sexual pleasure that she can produce in the mind of another.

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.