Feminism

Etymology
From féminisme: c. 1837, ultimately from  femininus:, from femina:. First recorded in English in 1851, originally meaning "the state of being feminine." Sense of "advocacy of women's rights" is from 1895.

Noun

 * 1) A social theory or political movement supporting the equality of both sexes in all aspects of public and private life; specifically, a theory or movement that argues that legal and social restrictions on females must be removed in order to bring about such equality.
 * 2) * 1996, Jan Jindy Pettman, Worlding Women: A feminist international politics, pages ix-x:
 * There are by now many feminisms (Tong, 1989; Humm, 1992). Alongside and often overlapping with older-identified distinctions between liberal, socialist, radical and cultural feminisms, for example (important as they are in their different accounts of sexual difference and gender power), are variously named black, third-world ethnic-minority feminisms, themselves far from homogenous.

Translations

 * Arabic: حركة حقوق المرأة, أنثوية, نسوية, فيمينيزم
 * Armenian: ֆեմինիզմ
 * Belarusian: фемінізм
 * Bengali: নারীবাদ
 * Bulgarian: феминизъм
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:, , 女性主義, 女性主义, 女權擴張論, 女权扩张论
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 * Georgian: ფემინიზმი
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 * Hindi: नारीवाद
 * Hungarian:


 * Icelandic:
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 * Japanese:, 女権拡張論
 * Korean: 페미니즘
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 * Russian:
 * Scottish Gaelic: boireann-dhligheachas
 * Serbo-Croatian: феминизам, feminizam
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish: feminism
 * Thai: สตรีนิยม
 * Turkish:
 * Ukrainian: фемінізм
 * Urdu: ناریواد
 * Vietnamese:, chủ nghỉa nư quyền

Related terms

 * feminist
 * feminine