Feminist scholars began taking cues from the new theories arising from these movements to analyzing film.

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.

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.

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.

* 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.

The notion of social structure was extensively developed in the 20th century, with key contributions from structuralist perspectives drawing on the theories of Claude Lévi-Strauss, Feminist or Marxist perspectives, from functionalist perspectives such as those developed by Talcott Parsons and his followers, or from a variety of analytic perspectives ( see Blau 1975, Lopez and Scott 2000 ).

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.

Feminist theories first emerged as early as 1792 (– 1920s ) in publications such as “ The Changing Woman ”, “ Ain ’ t I a Woman ”, “ Speech after Arrest for Illegal Voting ”, and so on.

Feminist psychologists, such as Jean Baker Miller, sought to bring a feminist analysis to previous psychological theories, proving that " there was nothing wrong with women, but rather with the way modern culture viewed them.

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

New Feminist theories were also influenced by the Personalist and Phenomenology movements of the early 20th century.

" 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 approaches to international relations became popular in the early 1990s.

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

Eleanor Smeal and the Feminist Majority Foundation have received national and international recognition for their work.

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

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.

Feminist economics often assert that power relations exist within the economy, and therefore, must be assessed in economic models in ways that they previously have been overlooked.

" Feminist economists often extend these criticisms to many aspects of the social world, arguing that power relations are an endemic and important feature of society.

Feminist economists modify these assumptions to account for exploitative sexual and gender relations, single-parent families, same-sex relationships, familial relations with children, and the consequences of reproduction.

Feminist critics of Rawls, such as Susan Moller Okin, largely focused on weakness of Rawls ' in accounting for the injustices and hierarchies embedded in familial relations.

Feminist archaeology engages in challenging and changing interpretive frameworks employed by archaeologists: “ Feminism is a politics aimed at changing gender-based power relations .”.

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

Other forms loosely based on Gardner's teachings are Faery Wicca, Kemetic Wicca, Judeo-Paganism or " jewitchery ", Dianic Wicca or " Feminist Wicca " – which emphasizes the divine feminine, often creating women-only or lesbian-only groups.

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

Feminist economists often make a critical distinction that masculine bias in economics is primarily a result of gender, not sex.

Thus, in living our lives, we often become unconscious actors — Bourgeois, Feminist, Worker, Party Member, Frenchman, Canadian or American — each doing as we must to fulfill our chosen characters ' destinies.

Feminist documentary films of the 1970s often used cinéma-vérité techniques.

This period of intense debate and acrimony between sex-positive and anti-pornography feminists during the early 1980s is often referred to as the " Feminist Sex Wars ".

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

This period of intense debate and acrimony between sex-positive and anti-pornography feminists during the early 1980s is often referred to as the " Feminist Sex Wars ".

Feminist geographers often focus on the lived experiences of individuals and groups in their own localities, upon the geographies that they live in within their own communities, rather than theoretical development without empirical work.

Feminist geography is often considered part of a broader postmodern approach to the subject which is not primarily concerned with the development of conceptual theory in itself but rather focuses on the real experiences of individuals and groups in their own localities, upon the geographies that they live in within their own communities.

Sartre, Camus, Malraux and Simone de Beauvoir ( who is also famous as one of the forerunners of Feminist writing ) are often called " existentialist writers ", a reference to Sartre's philosophy of Existentialism ( although Camus refused the title " existentialist ").

Journalist Virginia Trioli published Generation F: Sex, Power & the Young Feminist in 1996 and a collection of essays critical of The First Stone was published under the title bodyjamming ( 1997 ).

Grier republished many of the books in this span in the 1980s under Naiad, and Cleis Press and Feminist Press have again reissued them.

* Griselda Pollock, Encounters in the Virtual Feminist Museum: Time, Space and the Archive.

Mary Wollstonecraft and the Feminist Imagination.

Ruth and Esther: A Feminist Companion to the Bible.

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.

" Creative Casuistry and Feminist Consciousness: The Rhetoric of Moral Reform.

" Feminist Cautions About Casuistry.

* Bella Abzug ( 1942 ), Feminist ; political activist ; U. S. Representative, 1971 – 1977

After the war, Eastman organized the First Feminist Congress in 1919.

* M. Bell Mirabella discusses Christine ’ s ability to refute the patriarchal discourse in her article Feminist Self-Fashioning: Christine de Pisan and The Treasure of the City of Ladies ( in The European Journal of Women ’ s Studies, 1999 ).

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

* Dianic Tradition / Dianic Wicca, a Feminist Goddess women's tradition of Wicca started by Zsuzsanna Budapest and her book, " The Holy Book of Women's Mysteries.

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 Film Theory.

* Multiple Voices in Feminist Film Criticism, edited by Diane Carson, Janice R. Welsch, Linda Dittmar, University of Minnesota Press 1994

* 1963 – The publication of Betty Friedan's The Feminine Mystique reawakens the Feminist Movement in the United States as women's organizations and consciousness raising groups spread.

Feminist theory typically characterizes patriarchy as a social construction, which can be overcome by revealing and critically analyzing its manifestations.

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

Feminist Theory in Pursuit of the Public: Women and the " Re-Privatization " of Labor.

* Stansell, Christine, The Feminist Promise: 1792 to the Present ( 2010 ( ISBN 978-0-679-64314-2528 )), pages.

* Feminist. com directory

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