Feminism
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Feminism is a collection of movements aimed at defining, establishing, and defending equal political, economic, and social rights and equal opportunities for women. Its concepts overlap with those of womens rights. Feminism is mainly focused on womens issues, but because feminism seeks gender equality, some feminists argue that mens liberation is therefore a necessary part of feminism, and that men are also harmed by sexism and gender roles. Feminists are people whose beliefs and behaviors are based on feminism.
The feminist camp which most appeals to me, is the Feminist Summer Camp. It is a program for college students interested in meeting with progressive leaders and national feminist organizations. The program emphasizes career development and will include a opportunities to network with professionals and learn about career and internship opportunities. The Feminist Summer Camp is an activist boot camp that includes hands-on adventures to learn about different approaches, strategies, and skills of social justice organizing. This Camp allows students to share the love for music as well.
2) The main ways in which women are treated unfairly are in ways society treats women, rather than the government. For example, men are often congratulated for having a lot of sex, while women are often criticized for it. People have this pathetically idiotic idea that promiscuity is good for men and bad for women.
The way that women are portrayed in the media. Or rather, the lacks of sympathy people are expected to feel with female characters. If you can name for me three movies in which the MAIN CHARACTER is 1.) female, 2.) not obsessing over men/relationships/family, or 3.) not currently falling in love with someone.
The women are expected to do ALL of the work at family gatherings while the males drink beer and watch hockey.
3) Traditional ethics overrates culturally masculine traits like independence, autonomy, intellect, will, wariness, hierarchy, domination, culture, transcendence, product, asceticism, war, and death, while it underrates culturally feminine traits like interdependence, community, connection, sharing, emotion, body, trust, absence of hierarchy, nature, immanence, process, joy, peace, and life.
it favors male ways of moral reasoning that emphasize rules, rights, universality, and impartiality over female ways of moral reasoning that emphasize relationships, responsibilities, particularity, and partiality
4) For centuries, traditional ethicists claimed to speak for all of humanity, when they were speaking, only or primarily for men, and the most privileged men at that. In contrast, although feminist ethicists openly admit that they proceed from the prospective of womens experience, their paramount goal is simply to reconstruct