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Jineology
Jineology (Jineolojî), the Kurdish "science of women," coined by Abdullah Öcalan in Sociology of Freedom (2008) and developed by the Kurdish women's freedom movement; underpins Rojava's women's revolution, its academies, and Jin, Jiyan, Azadî.
Joan Bakewell
Joan Bakewell (Baroness Bakewell of Stockport, born 1933) is a British broadcaster and journalist famous as presenter of BBC Two's Late Night Line-Up (1965-1972), BBC Arts Correspondent, Heart of the Matter host, BAFTA Fellowship 2019 recipient, novelist, and Liberal Democrat peer.
Josefa Llanes Escoda
Josefa Llanes Escoda was a social worker who founded the Girl Scouts of the Philippines in 1940, and aided women's rights and prisoners during World War II.
Julie Bindel
Julie Bindel (born 1962) is a British radical feminist journalist and author, co-founder of Justice for Women, known for abolitionist views on prostitution, anti-pornography campaigning, and gender-critical activism.
Karen (slang)
Karen is pejorative slang for an entitled, demanding middle-aged white woman, stereotyped with a blond bob and demanding to speak to the manager; attested by 2005, it exploded in 2018-2020 via Black Twitter and viral videos like Central Park Karen.
Kartini
Raden Ajeng Kartini (1879–1904), Javanese noblewoman of Jepara in the Dutch East Indies, feminist and national hero of Indonesia whose Dutch-language letters, published as Door Duisternis tot Licht (1911), championed women's education and emancipation; commemorated annually on 21 April as Kartini Day.
Kate Lister (writer)
Kate Lister (Kathryn Louise Lister, born 1981) is a British historian, author, and columnist, Senior Lecturer at Leeds Trinity University, creator of Whores of Yore, and author of A Curious History of Sex and Harlots, Whores and Hackabouts.
Kate Millett
Kate Millett (1934–2017), American feminist writer, sculptor, and activist; author of Sexual Politics (1970), the foundational radical feminist analysis of patriarchy, drawn from her Columbia PhD thesis; also known for The Loony-Bin Trip and the Millett Center for the Arts.
Katrina Johnson (model)
Katrina Anne Castañeda Johnson, Filipino-American pharmacist and beauty queen from Davao, Binibining Pilipinas International 2025 and 2023 first runner-up, representing the Philippines at Miss International 2026 in Tokyo.
Kimberlé Crenshaw
Kimberlé Crenshaw, American legal scholar at Columbia and UCLA who coined "intersectionality" in 1989, elaborated it in 1991, co-founded the African American Policy Forum, and launched #SayHerName.
Lad culture
Lad culture, or laddism, is a hegemonic student masculinity in UK universities linked to binge drinking, sexist banter, sport, and harassment, studied since the 1990s and addressed by the 2016 UUK Changing the Culture report.
Lady
Lady: English word for a woman, from Old English hlæfdige (loaf-kneader), female counterpart of lord; a British peerage title and, in modern usage, a polite or contested alternative to woman.
Latine
Latine (lah-TEE-nay) is a gender-neutral alternative to Latino and Latina, formed with the Spanish -e suffix, first recorded in 2017, used in U.S. academia and Latin America, and known to only 18% of U.S. Hispanics, unlike Latinx.
Lean In
Lean In: Women, Work, and the Will to Lead is Sheryl Sandberg's 2013 Knopf bestseller, co-written with Nell Scovell, urging women to overcome internal barriers at work; it spawned LeanIn.org, Lean In Circles, and major structural-feminist criticism.
Lesbian feminism
Lesbian feminism: 1970s second-wave feminist movement, also called lesbian-feminist or radical lesbianism, founded around Radicalesbians and the Furies; challenged homophobia in feminism and sexism in gay politics, advocated separatism, and built a print culture.
Lilian Ngoyi
Lilian Masediba Ngoyi, known as Ma Ngoyi, was a South African anti-apartheid activist and trade unionist who led 20,000 women in the 1956 anti-pass march on the Union Buildings.
List of feminists
List of feminists: notable feminists from Wollstonecraft, Stanton, Anthony, and Pankhurst through Friedan, Steinem, Greer, and Davis to Crenshaw, Walker, and Burke, organized by feminism's four waves.
List of women's organizations
Women's organizations, from the International Council of Women (founded 1888) and International Alliance of Women (1904) to DAWN and UN Women coalitions, advance gender equality through UN advocacy, development programs, and civil society networks.
Loretta Ross
Loretta J. Ross, born 1953, is an African American activist and Smith College professor who co-created the reproductive justice framework in 1994, co-founded SisterSong, and won a MacArthur Fellowship in 2022.
Machismo
Machismo is a Spanish word for masculinity, but in English it refers to an exaggerated stereotype of hypermasculinity attributed to Latin American men, popularized by US scholars.
Magdalen Berns
Magdalen Berns (1983–2019), British YouTuber, lesbian radical feminist, and co-founder of For Women Scotland; known for gender-critical vlogs and the phrase "there's no such thing as a lesbian with a penis".
Man
Man: an adult human male (biological sex producing sperm), with socially constructed masculinity norms varying across cultures; studied via masculinities research, health impacts, and gender-equality programs.
Man cave
A man cave, also called a mantuary, is a room or outbuilding, often a basement or garage, that a man keeps as a private refuge for hobbies and sports viewing.
Man or bear
Man or bear: viral 2024 TikTok question asking women if they'd rather be stuck in the woods with a man or a bear, also called man vs bear; most women in the viral video chose the bear, sparking surveys and academic study.
Manosphere
The manosphere is a decentralized network of anti-feminist, male-supremacist online communities, including MRAs, Pick-Up Artists, The Red Pill, MGTOW, and incels; term coined 2009, roots in 1970s men's rights movement, increasingly linked to radicalization and mainstream influencers like Andrew Tate.
Mansplaining
Mansplaining, a blend of man and explain coined in 2008 after Rebecca Solnit's essay, is a man's condescending explanation to a woman regardless of her expertise; OED-listed since 2018.
Manspreading
Manspreading: pejorative term for men sitting with legs wide apart on public transport, encroaching on adjacent seats. Coined in print October 2014; MTA 'Courtesy Counts' campaign; banned in Madrid metro from 2015.
Marxist feminism
Marxist feminism applies the Marxist critique of capitalism to women's oppression, centering unpaid reproductive labor; also called socialist feminism in some uses; key strands include Wages for Housework and social reproduction theory.
Mary Daly
Mary Daly (1928–2010), American radical feminist philosopher and theologian, author of The Church and the Second Sex, Beyond God the Father, and Gyn/Ecology; Boston College professor, distinct from economist Mary C. Daly and historian Mary E. Daly.
Mary Harrington
Mary Harrington, British writer and UnHerd contributing editor, author of Feminism Against Progress (2023) and originator of "reactionary feminism," critiquing technological progress and liberal feminism.