Feminism

• “Feminism seems to be a term without any clear significance” (Hooks 239)
• There is an “anything goes” type of approach when trying to reach what the definition is
  • Any type of woman who wants to be just as socially equal as men could be labeled a feminist
• Many times when we try and define feminism it is usually “liberal in origin and focus on the individual woman’s rights to freedom and self-determination” (Hooks 239)
• Struggle to end sexist oppression” (Hooks 240)
• It is not supposed to just benefit a specific group, race, or class of woman
• It does not privilege women over men
• Feminism is more of a type of movement
  • “...as a movement to end sexist oppression directs our attention to systems of domination and the inter-relatedness of sex, race, and class oppression” (Hooks 240)*“Feminism is DIY: a form of self-assembly” (Ahmed)
• It helps you to make sense that something is wrong (Ahmed)
• Way of challenging the universal (Ahmed)

• Is a lot of pieces put together (Feministskilljoy)
• “Can be empowering as it is a way of reinhabiting the past” (Feministkilljoy)
• Also allow for reinhabiting of your own body (Feministkilljoy)

• Hard to define just one aspect of feminism “A central problem with feminist discourse has been our inability to to either arrive at a consensus of opinion about what feminism is or accept definitions that can serve as points of unification” (Hooks 238)
• A movement to make women the “social equals of men.” (Hooks 238) In addition, there are other types of equality that feminism seeks.
• People often see it as a “radical political movement,” but it is not necessarily that (Hooks 238)
• In the future, feminism must be “solidly based on a recognition of need to eradicate the underlying cultural basis and causes of sexism and other forms of group oppression” (Hooks 240)

• Feminist saw the internet as a place to dissolve gender, sex, and bias=cyberfeminism
• Women used the internet to come together to talk about the issues and their similarities and differences, "Feminists emerging from a tradition of nonlinear writing and art practices saw potential in non-narrative hypertext as a medium, and feminist critics compared web connectivity to the consciousness-raising groups of 70s third-wave feminism" (Evans 1)

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References: bell hooks, “Feminism: a movement to end sexist oppression” / "Feminist Consciousness." / Feministkilljoys. N.p., 18 Oct. 2015. Web. 16 Feb. 2016. Evans, Clare L. "'We Are the Future Cunt': CyberFeminism in the 90s." Motherboard. N.p., n.d. Web. 16 Feb. 2016.