Feminist terminology

upright|thumb|right|The merged Venus symbol with [[raised fist is a symbol of feminism; Robin Morgan designed it for a protest of the 1969 Miss America pageant, where it was popularized.]]

thumb|alt=A woman under arrest walking between two policemen |Suffragette [[Dora Thewlis was arrested by the Metropolitan Police in 1914 for campaigning for women's right to vote.]] Sexism is prejudice or discrimination based on one's sex or gender. Sexism can affect anyone, but primarily affects women and girls. It has been linked to gender roles and stereotypes, and may include the belief that one sex or gender is intrinsically superior to another. Extreme sexism may foster sexual harassment, rape, and other forms of sexual violence. Discrimination in this context is defined as discriminatio

Patriarchy is a social system in which positions of authority are primarily held by men. The term patriarchy is used both in anthropology to describe a family or clan controlled by the father or eldest male or group of males, and in feminist theory to describe a broader social structure in which men as a group dominate society.

thumb|Swetnam the Woman-Hater, printed in 1620. The work is credited with originating the English term misogynist.

Non-binary (also written as nonbinary) or genderqueer gender identities are those that are outside the male/female gender binary. Non-binary identities often fall under the transgender umbrella since non-binary people typically identify with a gender that is different from the sex assigned to them at birth, although some non-binary people do not consider themselves transgender.

social role encompassing a range of behaviors and attitudes that are generally considered acceptable, appropriate, or desirable for people based on their actual or perceived sex or sexuality

metaphor used to represent an invisible barrier that keeps a given group from rising beyond a certain level in a hierarchy

Heteronormativity is the definition of heterosexuality as the normative human sexuality. It assumes the gender binary (i.e., that there are only two distinct, opposite genders) and that sexual and marital relations are most fitting between people of the opposite sex.

classification of sex and gender into two distinct, opposite and disconnected forms of masculine and feminine

disregarding personality or dignity; reducing a person to a commodity or sex object

sociological concept used to describe a setting in which rape is pervasive and normalized due to societal attitudes about gender and sexuality

fear, hatred or discrimination against lesbians

language that avoids bias towards a particular sex or social gender

Androcentrism (Ancient Greek, ἀνήρ, "man, male") is the practice, conscious or otherwise, of placing a masculine point of view at the center of one's world view, culture, and history, thereby culturally marginalizing women. The related adjective is androcentric. The opposite of androcentric is gynocentric.

acronym of trans-exclusionary radical feminism

thumb|An example of "manspreading" on the Tokyo Metro Tozai Line

depiction of girls and women as sexual objects for the pleasure of a male, heterosexual viewer

thumb|right|alt=A topless woman with dark hair and sunglasses, her left hand is holding protest sign with the text "Stand up" in capital red letter and "for topless equal rights" in smaller green capital letters.|A woman protesting for the right to go topless anywhere a man could. Venice Beach, California, 2011 Topfreedom is a cultural and political movement seeking changes in laws to allow women to be topless in public places where men are permitted to be barechested, as a form of gender equality. Specifically, the movement seeks the repeal or overturning of laws which restrict a woman's righ

set of poverty phenomena that most frequently affect women

Slut-shaming is the practice of criticizing individuals, particularly but not exclusively women and girls, who violate expectations of behavior and appearance regarding issues related to sexuality. It may also be used in reference to gay men, who may face disapproval for promiscuous sexual behaviors. Gender-based violence primarily affecting women can be a result of slut-shaming. The term is commonly used to reclaim the word slut and empower women to have agency over their own sexuality.

idea that language, policies, etc. should avoid specifying or distinguishing based on gender

practice of considering impacts on men and women of proposed public policy

political rallying slogan and argument derived from second-wave feminism movements

thumb|Portrait of Bluestockings by Richard Samuel thumb|right|Caricature of blue stockings by Thomas Rowlandson|Rowlandson Bluestocking (also spaced blue-stocking or blue stockings) is a term for an educated, intellectual woman, originally a member of the 18th-century Blue Stockings Society from England led by the hostess and critic Elizabeth Montagu (1718–1800), the "Queen of the Blues", including Elizabeth Vesey (1715–1791), Hester Chapone (1727–1801) and the classicist Elizabeth Carter (1717–1806). In the following generation came Hester Lynch Piozzi (1741–1821), Hannah More (1745–1833) and

strike in which one or multiple persons refrain from sex with their partners to achieve certain goals

workload of people who both earn money and have significant domestic responsibilities

work often associated with care giving and domestic roles

feminist slogan

social vision of heterosexuality as the natural inclination or obligation by both sexes

someone working in a care-oriented career field

Performativity is the concept that language can function as a form of social action and have the effect of change. The concept has multiple applications in diverse fields such as anthropology, social and cultural geography, economics, gender studies (social construction of gender), law, linguistics, performance studies, history, management studies and philosophy.

In education, business, law, and other fields, gender blindness or sex blindness is the practice of disregarding gender as a significant factor in interactions between people and applying equal rules across genders (formal equality of opportunity).

Amatonormativity () is the set of societal assumptions that everyone prospers with an exclusive romantic relationship. Elizabeth Brake coined the term in her 2012 book Minimizing Marriage to capture societal assumptions about romance. The term has since become established in queer theory, literary studies, in self-help books for aromantic people, and popular science books about aromanticism. Brake wanted to describe the pressure she received by many to prioritize marriage in her own life when she did not want to. Amatonormativity extends beyond social pressures for marriage to include general

social concept that special rights or advantages are available only to a particular person or group of people

concept used to describe social, economic, and political advantages or rights that are made available to men solely on the basis of their sex

exclusive area for women

In critical theory and deconstruction, phallogocentrism is a neologism coined by Jacques Derrida to refer to the privileging of the masculine (phallus) in the construction of meaning. The term is a blend word of the older terms phallocentrism (focusing on the masculine point of view) and logocentrism (focusing on language in assigning meaning to the world).

drawing of attention to an activist topic

Homonormativity is the adoption of heteronormative ideals and constructs onto LGBT culture and identity. It is predicated on the assumption that the norms and values of heterosexuality should be replicated and performed among homosexual people. Those who assert this theory claim homonormativity selectively privileges cisgender homosexuality (that is coupled and monogamous) as worthy of social acceptance.

social justice issue

Phallocentrism is the ideology that the phallus, or male sexual organ, is the central element in the organization of the social world. Phallocentrism has been analyzed in literary criticism, psychoanalysis and psychology, linguistics, medicine and health care, and philosophy.

distribution of workers across and within occupations

practice in which a distorted or fabricated version of feminism is used in an attempt to mock or dismiss feminist arguments

Intentional community organised by lesbian separatists

socioeconomic discrimination based on gender

theory developed by black socialists in the United States

branch of feminism

feminist slogan in Pakistan

concept in feminism that asserts that the world around us, built by men, is built for men, perceives the male as the norm, and everything else as a deviation

Gynocriticism or gynocritics is the term coined in the seventies by Elaine Showalter to describe a new literary project intended to construct "a female framework for the analysis of women's literature".

term from second-wave feminism referring to women identified as female at birth

Feminist expression

concept used to examine the attribution of fixed, intrinsic, innate qualities to women and men

thumb|right|200px|Sophia Amoruso wrote the 2014 book Girlboss. "Girlboss" is a neologism that denotes a woman "whose success is defined in opposition to the masculine business world in which she swims upstream". They are described as confident and capable women who are successful in their career, or the one who pursues her own ambitions, instead of working for others or otherwise settling in life. A similar and related term is "boss babe".

Internal conflict of society's oppressed