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Femina Miss India
Femina Miss India is India's national beauty pageant run by Femina magazine since 1964; its winner represents India at Miss World. First winner Meher Castelino; 2026 titleholder Sadhvi Sail.
Feminazi
Feminazi, a blend of feminist and Nazi, is an offensive slur for feminists popularized by Rush Limbaugh in the early 1990s, originally aimed at pro-choice advocates, now common in online antifeminist hate speech.
Femininity
Femininity: the socially constructed set of qualities attributed to women, counterpart of masculinity and distinct from biological sex. Covers performativity theory, historical beauty ideals, measurement inventories, and self-assessment survey data.
Feminism
Feminism is a political movement and intellectual commitment seeking justice for women and the elimination of sexism. Scholars distinguish between feminist ideas and political movements.
Feminism in Australia
Feminism in Australia is the organized movement for women's equality, beginning with colonial suffrage campaigns in the 1880s; white women won the federal vote in 1902, and from the 1970s feminists worked closely with the state.
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 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 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 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.
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.
Femosphere
Femosphere: term coined by Jilly Boyce Kay (Loughborough University) for online female-centric communities mirroring the manosphere, including femcels, female dating strategists, and pink-pill ideology; also an older US usage and a women's blog name.
Ferguson unrest
Ferguson unrest: protests and civil disturbances in Ferguson, Missouri, after police officer Darren Wilson shot Michael Brown on August 9, 2014; catalyst for Black Lives Matter and source of a 2015 DOJ pattern-or-practice report and 2016 consent decree.
Fetishization of LGBTQ people
Fetishization of LGBTQ people: treating sexual or gender identity as a sexual fantasy. Also called queer sexual objectification. Documented in media, dating apps, and history, mostly by cishet men, with negative mental-health impacts.
Financial domination
Financial domination, or findom, is a consensual BDSM kink in which a submissive (pay pig, finsub) pays tributes to a findomme, with financial surrender itself the erotic power exchange, distinct from financial abuse and studied as online sex work.
Finger pinching conspiracy theory
Finger pinching conspiracy theory: South Korean antifeminist theory from 2021 claiming feminists plant the thumb-index pinch gesture (jibgeson, tied to Megalia) in ads and games to mock men; widely assessed as a hoax that triggered boycotts and corporate self-censorship.
Fingering (sexual act)
Fingering: manual stimulation of a partner's clitoris or vagina with fingers or hand. Low-risk, safer sex; skin-to-skin STIs (warts, herpes, scabies) can pass, chlamydia and gonorrhea cannot; pregnancy risk extremely low.
First same-sex marriage in Spain
First same-sex marriage in Spain: Emilio Menéndez and Carlos Baturín wed 11 July 2005 in Tres Cantos under Ley 13/2005, in force 3 July; Spain was the third country, upheld by STC 198/2012.
First-wave feminism
First-wave feminism: 19th–early 20th-century feminist movement focused on legal inequalities, especially women's suffrage, from Seneca Falls 1848 to the Nineteenth Amendment's 1920 ratification; also called the women's suffrage movement.
Fisting
Fisting is a sexual practice of inserting a whole hand, sometimes to the wrist or forearm, into the vagina or rectum; it can be partnered or autoerotic.
Flight shame
Flight shame (Swedish flygskam) is guilt or public shaming about flying's climate impact. It emerged in Sweden in 2016-2017 around Greta Thunberg and other figures who quit flying, with measurable Swedish travel drops, changing aviation social norms, and limited behavior change elsewhere.
Flint water crisis
Flint water crisis: 2014–2015 drinking water lead contamination in Flint, Michigan after the Flint River switch without corrosion control, exposing about 99,000 residents, prompting the $600 million state settlement, criminal cases, and lead pipe replacement.
Flirty Fishing
Flirty Fishing (FFing) was a 1974–1987 evangelism practice of David Berg's Children of God, in which female members used romantic and sexual attraction, including sex, to recruit male converts and supporters; banned in 1987.
Florence Tullis
Florence "Rusty" Tullis, also known as Rusty Dennis, was the California mother of Rocky Dennis, who had craniodiaphyseal dysplasia, and was portrayed by Cher in the 1985 film Mask; she died in 2006 at 70 after a motorcycle accident.
Florida Parental Rights in Education Act
The Florida Parental Rights in Education Act, HB 1557 (2022), nicknamed 'Don't Say Gay', restricts classroom instruction on sexual orientation and gender identity, originally K-3, expanded to grade 8 in 2023, with parental notification and lawsuit enforcement; settled litigation left it in effect.
Flower power
Flower power: slogan of the 1960s hippie or flower children counterculture, advocating peace, love, and passive resistance; often attributed to Allen Ginsberg's 1965 essay, known for flowers in gun barrels at the 1967 Pentagon march.