feminism
Political discourse which examines the power relationships between women and men, and promotes women's struggle for self-determination against patriarchy and sexism. It had a major influence on late twentieth-century and early twenty-first-century Western theatre concerned with identity politics, and its precepts have defined many of the issues significant for this work. Feminism encompasses doctrines which promote sexual, social, and political equality for women, the emphasis of its principles depending upon the particular theories and methods of analysis adopted by specific feminist ideologies. Its definitions depend upon race, sexuality, nationality, and class, as much as upon ideology or philosophy.... ...
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