Women's Rights Movement

A Women's Rights Movement is a social movement to establish women's rights (equal rights for women).

• AKA: Feminism.
• Context:
  • It can be advanced by a Feminist.
  • It can range from being an Individualist-based Women's Rights Movement to being a Social-based Women's Rights Movement.
• Example(s):
  • Women's Right-to-Body Movement (for a right-to-body).
  • Women's Right-to-Safety Movement (for a right-to-safety).
  • Women's Right-to-Travel Movement (for a right-to-travel).
  • Women's Freedom-of-Association Movement (for a freedom-of-association).
  • Women's Right-to-Work Movement (for a right-to-work).
  • Women's Right-to-Vote Movement (for a right-to-vote).
  • …
• Counter-Example(s):
  • Minority Rights Movement, such as an indigenous people's rights movement or an immigrant's rights movement.
  • Men's Rights Movement, for Men's rights.
• See: Femininity, Women's Suffrage, Right to Work, Marriage, Maternity Leave, Autonomy.

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References

2018

• https://www.theguardian.com/news/2018/may/11/how-metoo-revealed-the-central-rift-within-feminism-social-individualist
  • QUOTE: Call it, then, a conflict between “individualist” and “social” feminisms. In part, the rift is between visions of how to undertake the feminist project, of which tactics are best: whether through individual empowerment, or through collective liberation. But there is a greater moral divide between these two strands of thought, because #MeToo and its critics also disagree over where to locate responsibility for sexual abuse: whether it is a woman’s responsibility to navigate, withstand and overcome the misogyny that she encounters, or whether it is the shared responsibility of all of us to eliminate sexism, so that she never encounters it in the first place.

2015

• (Wikipedia, 2015) ⇒ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/feminism Retrieved:2015-5-15.
  • Feminism is a collection of movements and ideologies that share a common goal: to define, establish, and achieve equal political, economic, cultural, personal, and social rights for women. This includes seeking to establish equal opportunities for women in education and employment. A feminist advocates or supports the rights and equality of women. Feminist movements have campaigned and continue to campaign for women's rights, including the right to vote, to hold public office, to work, to fair wages or equal pay, to own property, to education, to enter contracts, to have equal rights within marriage, and to have maternity leave. Feminists have also worked to promote bodily autonomy and integrity, and to protect women and girls from rape, sexual harassment, and domestic violence. Feminist campaigns are generally considered to be one of the main forces behind major historical societal changes for women's rights, particularly in the West, where they are near-universally credited with having achieved women's suffrage, gender neutrality in English, reproductive rights for women (including access to contraceptives and abortion), and the right to enter into contracts and own property. Although feminist advocacy is and has been mainly focused on women's rights, some feminists, including bell hooks, argue for the inclusion of men's liberation within its aims because men are also harmed by traditional gender roles. Feminist theory, which emerged from 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 gender. Some forms of feminism have been criticized for taking into account only white, middle-class, educated perspectives. This led to the creation of ethnically specific or multiculturalist forms of feminism. Feminism has been criticized by some people who believe that feminists are trying to take away men's rights.

1989

• (Jaggar, 1989) ⇒ Alison M. Jaggar. (1989). “Love and Knowledge: Emotion in feminist epistemology.” In: Inquiry, 32(2). doi:10.1080/00201748908602185
  • ABSTRACT: This paper argues that, by construing emotion as epistemologically subversive, the Western tradition has tended to obscure the vital role of emotion in the construction of knowledge. The paper begins with an account of emotion that stresses its active, voluntary, and socially constructed aspects, and indicates how emotion is involved in evaluation and observation. It then moves on to show how the myth of dispassionate investigation has functioned historically to undermine the epistemic authority of women as well as other social groups associated culturally with emotion. Finally, the paper sketches some ways in which the emotions of underclass groups, especially women, may contribute to the development of a critical social theory.
  • SUBJECT HEADINGS: Outlaw Emotion.

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