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Feminism in India
Feminism in India, also known as Indian feminism, comprises movements and theories for women's equal rights, rooted in 19th-century social reform against sati and child marriage.
Feminism in New Zealand
Feminism in New Zealand spans from the 1893 Electoral Act, the world's first legal women's suffrage in a self-governing country, to three women Prime Ministers and parliamentary parity reached in 2022.
Feminism in sub-Saharan Africa
Feminism in sub-Saharan Africa comprises the movements and scholarship through which African women have claimed rights and autonomy, on terms largely defined by African women themselves.
Feminism in the Pacific Islands
Feminism in the Pacific Islands covers women's movements across Oceania, from early Pitcairn Island suffrage in 1838 to the first Pacific Women's Conference in Suva in 1975.
Feminist art movement
The feminist art movement, begun in the late 1960s in the United States and England, made women's personal experiences the subject of art and challenged the canon of Western art history.
Feminist critical discourse analysis
Feminist critical discourse analysis (FCDA) is an approach within critical discourse analysis that studies how language sustains gendered power relations, introduced by Michelle Lazar in 2005.
Feminist economists
Feminist economists are economists who treat unpaid care and domestic work as fundamental economic activities; their field, feminist economics, was recognized as a distinct subdiscipline in the 1990s.
Feminist epistemology
Feminist epistemology is the branch of epistemology that asks how gender and the knower's identity shape knowledge, centered on situated knowledge and including feminist empiricism and standpoint theory.
Feminist international relations
Feminist international relations (feminist IR) is a body of IR theory examining gender and women's roles in international politics, emerging from the late 1980s onward.
Feminist literary criticism
Feminist literary criticism analyzes literature through feminist theory and politics, examining women's representation, gynocriticism, Anglo-American versus French strands, intersectionality, and waves from the 1960s woman's movement to fourth-wave digital criticism.
Feminist movement
Feminist movement: organized campaigns for women's rights and equality, from first-wave suffrage and second-wave feminism to intersectionality, the 1995 Beijing Platform, and today's global backlash, with nearly one in four governments reporting setbacks in 2024.
Feminist movements and ideologies
Feminist movements and ideologies, or feminisms, are political movements and theories opposing gender-based oppression. Covers liberal, radical, Marxist-socialist, ecofeminist, intersectional, and transnational strands, wave periodization since the 19th century, and Beijing Platform status.
Feminist novel
The feminist novel is fiction that explores women's lives from a gender-centered perspective and challenges patriarchal structures, going beyond any novel merely written by a woman.
Feminist pornography
Feminist pornography, also called feminist porn or ethical porn, is a genre rejecting mainstream porn tropes. Emerged from the 1980s feminist sex wars; Candida Royalle founded Femme Productions in 1984 as its pioneering producer.
Feminist science fiction
Feminist science fiction is an SF subgenre using speculative narratives to challenge gender roles, patriarchy, and bodily norms. Also called feminist SF or femspec, it spans Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, the 1970s boom of Russ, Le Guin, Charnas, and Piercy, and contemporary film and art.
Feminist theology
Feminist theology, also called religious feminism, is theology from the standpoint of women's experience, questioning male God-language and male-only leadership; it emerged in the 1960s.
Feminist theory
Feminist theory is a body of scholarship analyzing gender-based oppression, gender inequality, and how gender is shaped in institutions, accompanying the feminist movement from the mid-1970s.
Feminist views on transgender topics
Feminist views on transgender topics cover trans-inclusionary transfeminism, trans-exclusionary gender-critical and radical feminist positions, disputes over sex, gender, and womanhood, and legal flashpoints like the 2025 UK Equality Act ruling.
Feminizing hormone therapy
Feminizing hormone therapy combines 17-beta estradiol with antiandrogens such as spironolactone to develop female secondary sex characteristics and suppress testosterone in transgender women, with VTE risk shaping formulation choice.
Femke Bol
Femke Bol (Femke Broeders-Bol), born 2000, Dutch 400m hurdler; two-time world champion (Budapest 2023, Tokyo 2025), Paris 2024 mixed 4x400 relay gold, world indoor 400m record 49.26, European record 50.95.
Femke Halsema
Femke Halsema is a Dutch politician of the party GroenLinks-PvdA who has served as Mayor of Amsterdam since 2018, after leading GroenLinks in the House of Representatives from 2002 to 2010.
Femke Heemskerk
Femke Heemskerk (Frederike Johanna Maria Heemskerk, born 1987) is a retired Dutch freestyle swimmer, 2008 Olympic 4x100 m relay champion, 2012 silver medalist, four-time Olympian with 101 international medals.
Femke Kok
Femke Kok, Dutch speed skater (born 2000), 500m specialist, world record holder 36.09s, 2026 Olympic 500m champion and 1000m silver medalist, three-time world 500m champion, first woman to sweep all four races at a World Sprint Championships.
Femme
Femme: an LGBTQ+ identity term for feminine gender expression, from French femme (Latin femina). Originated in 1940s US lesbian bar culture as the counterpart of butch; now used by lesbians, gay men, and transfeminine people.
Femme fatale
The femme fatale, French for "fatal woman," is a stock character, an attractive seductress who brings disaster or death to men, tied especially to 1940s film noir.
Femme Fatale (2002 film)
Femme Fatale is a 2002 erotic thriller written and directed by Brian De Palma, starring Rebecca Romijn as a con woman pursued by paparazzo Antonio Banderas.
Femme Fatale (Britney Spears album)
Femme Fatale is Britney Spears' seventh studio album, a 2011 Jive Records dance-pop and EDM record executive produced by Max Martin and Dr. Luke, distinct from other albums titled Femme Fatale. It debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 with 276,000 copies, was certified platinum, and scored 67 on Metacritic.
FeMoco
FeMoco (FeMo-co, iron-molybdenum cofactor) is the [MoFe7S9C]-homocitrate metal-sulfur cluster active site of molybdenum nitrogenase, containing an unprecedented central carbide, where N2 is reduced to ammonia in an eight-electron cycle.
Femoral artery
Femoral artery (Arteria femoralis): main thigh artery, continuation of the external iliac artery under the inguinal ligament, becoming the popliteal artery at the adductor hiatus; largest branch profunda femoris; key site for catheterization and PAD.
Femoral hernia
Femoral hernia: bowel or fat protruding through the femoral canal in the groin; rare (2-4% of groin hernias), more common in older women, high strangulation risk, usually repaired surgically with mesh or sutures.