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Feeble-minded
Feeble-minded: obsolete legal and medical term (mid-1800s to mid-1900s) for someone judged mentally impaired; Goddard defined it as IQ below 70, tied it to eugenics, sterilization, and the Kallikak study, now replaced by intellectual disability.
Feeld
Feeld (formerly 3nder) is a dating app founded in 2014 by Dimo Trifonov for singles and couples exploring ethical non-monogamy, polyamory, and kink; CEO Ana Kirova, Majestic paid tier, 20+ sexualities and 30+ desire tags.
Feelings of guilt
Feelings of guilt: the self-conscious moral emotion of discomfort over one's own real or imagined wrongdoing, distinct from shame, classified ICD-11 MB24.B, with adaptive and maladaptive forms studied in psychology.
Félix Guattari
Félix Guattari (1930–1992), French psychoanalyst and La Borde clinic therapist trained by Lacan, co-wrote Anti-Oedipus and A Thousand Plateaus with Gilles Deleuze and created schizoanalysis, transversality, and ecosophy's three ecologies.
FEMA camps conspiracy theory
FEMA camps conspiracy theory: false belief that the US Federal Emergency Management Agency runs secret concentration camps for citizens under martial law; began in 1980s militia circles, repeatedly debunked, resurges around disasters and COVID-19.
Female education
Female education: schooling of girls and women worldwide. Also called girls' education. Near-global enrolment parity by 2024, but 119–133 million girls out of school, women 63% of illiterate adults, and tertiary enrolment now favors women.
Female foeticide in India
Female foeticide in India, also called gender-biased sex selection, is aborting a female fetus after ultrasound sex determination, driven by son preference; illegal under the PC&PNDT Act 1994, it produced child sex ratios as low as 914 in 2011.
Female Homosexuality
Female homosexuality, also called lesbianism (MeSH: Homosexuality, Female), is sexual attraction or relationships between females. Distinguished from male homosexuality by greater measured fluidity, gender-nonspecific arousal in androphilic women, and a sparser historical record; depathologized in the 1973 DSM-II decision.
Female infanticide
Female infanticide is the killing of girl infants after birth, distinct from female foeticide. Driven by son preference, it has contributed to over 142 million missing women and girls, mainly in Asia and the South Caucasus.
Female infanticide in China
Female infanticide in China: historical killing of infant girls driven by son preference, documented in Imperial China and reported in the 1980s under the one-child policy, now rare and largely replaced by sex-selective abortion and under-reporting.
Female promiscuity
Female promiscuity: multiple-partner or casual sexual behavior by women and its social judgment. Key facts: sexual double standard (meta-analysis d=0.25), Add Health peer-status findings, Natsal-3 partner-count gap 14.14 vs 7.12, Chinese survey evidence.
Female sex tourism
Female sex tourism, also called romance tourism, is travel by women to developing countries such as the Caribbean, Gambia, and Kenya for sex or romance with local men, distinguished by informal payment, contested labeling versus male sex tourism, and documented STI and exploitation concerns.
Female sexual arousal dysfunction
Female sexual arousal dysfunction (ICD-11 HA01.0) is reduced genital, non-genital, or subjective sexual arousal in women despite desire and adequate stimulation, causing distress; ISSWSH splits it into cognitive and genital subtypes, while DSM-5 merges it with low desire into FSIAD.
Female submission
Female submission is the expectation or practice of women deferring to male authority in relationships, marriage, and society. Covers legal history, psychological costs, cross-cultural attitudes, consensual BDSM, and recent Gen Z survey trends.
Female-led relationship
A female-led relationship (FLR) is a relationship in which the partners agree that the woman is the main authority, with control ranging from informal to full.
Femboy
Femboy: slang for a usually cisgender young man with a conventionally feminine manner of self-expression; also 男の娘 (otoko no ko). 1990s slur reclaimed online, meme breakout late 2019, dictionary-listed circa 2012.
Femen (Фемен)
Femen (Фемен), feminist protest movement founded in Ukraine in 2008 in Khmelnytskyi, known for topless "sextremism" actions with slogans painted on the body against patriarchy, dictatorships, and the sex industry; later based in Paris and criticized for Islamophobia.
Femicide
Femicide: intentional killing of women because they are women (feminicidio, feminicide); coined by Diana Russell in 1976, Brussels. About 50,000 women and girls were killed by partners or family in 2024, 60% of all intentional female killings.
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.