What
is feminism? Many people feel strongly
about feminism, and I have often heard individuals proudly declare that they
are or are not feminists. Yet, I have never had a satisfactory definition of
this term. One month into a course
entitled “Critical Feminist Studies”, I still have not been given a definition
of feminism which I feel is sufficient.
Google returns 19,100,000 hits in .12 seconds in a search for the term
“feminism”, the first of which is a lengthy and heavily annotated Wikipedia
entry. Though Wikipedia is not normally a reliable source for any paper, the