Concept information
Preferred term
feminist theory
Definition
- Feminist theory is a diverse body of thought based for the most part on one or more traditional or contemporary political, social, and cultural theories such as liberalism, socialism, and postmodernism. The difference between feminist theory and nonfeminist theory is that the former self-consciously reflects on the experience of women and deliberately uses the lens of gender as its preferred critical perspective. [Source: Encyclopedia of Business Ethics and Society; Feminist Theory]
Broader concept
Narrower concepts
- Audre Lorde
- Carol Gilligan
- Charlotte Perkins Gilman
- compulsory heterosexuality
- Dorothy Smith
- ecofeminism
- Elizabeth Minnich
- family wage
- feminist cultural studies
- feminist epistemology
- feminist ethics
- feminist theory: liberal
- feminist theory: marxist
- feminist theory: postcolonial
- feminist theory: second wave
- feminist theory: socialist
- feminist theory: third wave
- feminist theory: women-of-color and multiracial perspectives
- Gayle Rubin
- gender
- Gloria Anzaldúa
- Janet Chafetz
- Jessica Benjamin
- Judith Butler
- Julia Kristeva
- lesbian continuum
- liberal feminism
- Luce Irigaray
- male gaze
- Marianne Weber
- maternal thinking
- matrix of domination
- Nancy Chodorow
- Nancy Hartsock
- outsider-within
- patriarchy
- Patricia Hill Collins
- postmodernist feminism
- radical feminism
- Rae Blumberg
- Sandra Harding
- Sandra Lee Bartky
- Sara Ruddick
- Simone de Beauvoir
- standpoint theory
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URI
https://concepts.sagepub.com/social-science/concept/feminist_theory
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