Feminist scholar Levine sees much importance in Jesus being the child of a woman and feminine spirit.

Feminist scholar Levine rejects this view.

Ibn Warraq, a leading ex-Muslim human rights activist and scholar, described the book as " a welcome critique of the Feminist Left's willful and shameful neglect of their sisters ' plight in the Islamic world ".

* Alvarez, Maria ( 1998 ), " Feminist icon in a catsuit ( female lead character Emma Peel in defunct 1960s UK TV series ' The Avengers ')", New Statesman, Aug 14.

* 1995 – Public Forum, Featured Speaker, Feminist Family Values, the Foundation for A Compassionate Society, Featuring Angela Davis, Gloria Steinem, Maria Jimenez & Mililani Trask

Fenton states " Feminist holdouts against New York's new bill allows no-fault divorce don't understand how family law affects women today ," adding " It also mystifies me that spouses could still, even in 2010, be forced to stay married to someone who refused to let go.

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 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.

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.

To different interpreters, this early Japanese shaman queen can appear as evidence of: communalism ( Marxists ), Jōmon priestess rulers ( Feminist history ), Japanese conquest of Korea ( Akima 1993 ), mongolian conquest of Japan ( Namio Egami's " horserider theory "), the imperial system originating with tandem rule by a female shaman and male monarch ( Mori 1979 ), the " patriarchal revolution " replacing female deities and priestesses with male counterparts ( Ellwood 1990 ), or a shamanic advisor to the federation of Wa chieftains who " must have looked like a ruling queen to Chinese envoys " ( Matsumoto 1983 ).

* Feminism – Feminist therapy is an orientation arising from the disparity between the origin of most psychological theories ( which have male authors ) and the majority of people seeking counseling being female.

Feminist Susan Faludi writes of Ripley in Backlash that, " The tough-talking space engineer who saves an orphan child in Aliens is sympathetically portrayed, but her willfulness, too, is maternal ; she is protecting the child-who calls her ' Mommy ' - from female monsters.

Feminist history refers to the re-reading of history from a female perspective.

Feminist historians say use of the term catfight to label female opponents goes back to 1940, when American newspapers characterized as a catfight a dispute between Clare Boothe Luce and journalist Dorothy Thompson over which candidate to support in the 1940 Presidential campaign.

Feminists in the past have worked within these traditions by revising and criticizing female representations, or lack thereof, in the male traditions ( that is, in the Feminine and Feminist phases ).

Feminist ideas spread among the educated female middle classes, discriminatory laws were repealed, and the women's suffrage movement gained momentum in the last years of the Victorian Era.

* ALIF ( Liberate Attack of the Feminist Infantry ), female hip hop group from Senegal

" 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 ).

The changes under critical geography have led to contemporary approaches in the discipline such as Feminist geography, New cultural geography, and the engagement with postmodern and post structural theories and philosophies.

Critics of cultural feminism hold that cultural feminist ideas on sexuality, exemplified by the feminist anti-pornography movement, severely polarized feminism, leading to the " Feminist Sex Wars " of the 1980s.

Feminist cultural analyst, theorist and art historian Griselda Pollock contributed to cultural studies from viewpoints of art history and psychoanalysis.

Feminist economists such as Marilyn Power, Ellen Mutari and Deborah M. Figart have examined the gender pay gap and found that wage setting procedures are not primarily driven by market forces, but instead by the power of actors, cultural understandings of the value of work and what constitutes a proper living, and social gender norms.

Feminist author and cultural critic Susan J. Douglas believed that the shows emphasis on the male lead character, highlighted by women fighting over him, confirmed the traditional patriarchal role of men in society.

Feminist activism explores the intersections of social, political, and cultural histories ( among various others denominators ), their implications, and dedicates time and energy to the liberation of all people from injustices.

The art historian Griselda Pollock dedicated to Charlotte Salomon a chapter in her Virtual Feminist Museum, analysing her work in terms of contemporary art, Jewish history and cultural theory.

In her essay Feminist Criticism in the Wilderness ( 1981 ), Showalter says, " A cultural theory acknowledges that there are important differences between women as writers: class, race nationality, and history are literary determinants as significant as gender.

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.

* Feminist geography, which argues for recognition of the power relations as patriarchal and attempts to theorise alternative conceptions of identity and identity politics.

Dianic Witchcraft and Dianic Feminist Witchcraft, is a tradition, or denomination, of the Neopagan religion of Wicca.

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

According to Cynthia A. Freeland in " Feminist Frameworks for Horror Films ," feminist studies of horror films have focused on psychodynamics where the chief interest is " on viewers ' motives and interests in watching horror films ".

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

Feminist science fiction is sometimes taught at the university level to explore the role of social constructs in understanding gender.

Feminist science fiction is evidenced in the globally popular mediums of comic books, manga, and graphic novels.

Feminist theology is a movement found in several religions, including Buddhism, Christianity, Judaism, and New Thought, to reconsider the traditions, practices, scriptures, and theologies of those religions from a feminist perspective.

Feminist theorist Marilyn Frye claims that misogyny is phallogocentric and homoerotic at its root.

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.

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.

* The Hoda Cha ' arawi Association ( formerly The Egyptian Feminist Union ) is established in Egypt.

She is a retired professor with the History of Consciousness Department at the University of California, Santa Cruz and is the former director of the university's Feminist Studies department.

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

Feminist literary critics have analyzed the character's enduring appeal, arguing variously that Nancy Drew is a mythic hero, an expression of wish fulfillment, or an embodiment of contradictory ideas about femininity.

Feminist theory of psychoanalysis, articulated mainly by Julia Kristeva ( the " semiotic " and " abjection ") and Bracha Ettinger ( the feminine-prematernal-maternal matrixial Eros of borderlinking and com-passion, " matrixial trans-subjectivity " and the " primal mother-phantasies "), and informed both by Freud, Lacan and the Object relations theory, is very influential in gender studies.

Although it was not the first or longest of her works, without question Gilman's most famous piece is her short story The Yellow Wallpaper, which became a best-seller of the Feminist Press.

Feminist thinking, on the other hand, may object to such models as patriarchal and posit against them emotionally-attuned, responsive, and consensual empathetic guidance, which is sometimes associated with matriarchies.

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 economists call attention to the social constructions of traditional economics, questioning the extent to which it is positive and objective, and showing how its models and methods are biased towards masculine preferences.

Feminist economists also point out that agency is not available to everyone, such as children, the sick, and the frail elderly.

Feminist economists, argue on the contrary that a mathematical conception of economics limited to scarce resources is a holdover from the early years of science and Cartesian philosophy, and limits economic analysis.

Feminist critiques of economics include that " economics, like any science, is socially constructed.