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Individualist feminism (sometimes also grouped with libertarian feminism or ifeminism) is a term for feminist ideas which seek to celebrate or protect the individual woman.[citation needed]
Individualist feminists attempt to change legal systems in order to eliminate class privileges and gender privileges and to ensure that individuals have equal rights, including an equal claim under the law to their own persons and property. Individualist feminism encourages women to take full responsibility for their own lives. It also opposes any government interference into the choices adults make with their own bodies, because it contends such interference creates a coercive hierarchy (such as patriarchy).[1]
Wendy McElroy and Christina Hoff Sommers define individualist feminism in opposition to what they call political or gender feminism.[2][3][verification needed] Scholars and critics have commented that the label 'feminist' is often used cynically in this context, as a way to co-opt general feminism rather than actually be part of feminism.[4][5]
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See also
- Ezra Heywood
- Dora Marsden
- Wendy McElroy
- Tiffany Million
- Carol Moore
- Toni Nathan
- Sharon Presley
- Joan Kennedy Taylor
- Cathy Young
- Libertarianism
- Libertarian perspectives on abortion
References
- ^ McElroy, Wendy, ed. (2002). Liberty for Women: Freedom and Feminism in the 21st century. Ivan R. Dee, Publisher. ISBN 978-1-56663-435-9.
- ^ McElroy, Wendy (2002). Liberty for Women: Freedom and Feminism in the 21st century. Ivan R. Dee, Publisher. ISBN 978-1-56663-435-9.
- ^ Sommers, Christina Hoff (1995). Who stole feminism?: how women have betrayed women. New York: Simon & Schuster. pp. 320. ISBN 0-684-80156-6.
- ^ NPR. Transcripts available here: [1]
- ^ The Washington Post 'Sommers's book is a work of neither dispassionate social science nor reflective scholarship; it is a conservative polemic. Sommers focuses... on the feminists and cultural liberals against whom she has a long-standing animus... This intemperate book is a hindrance to such conversation.'
Further reading
- Uncivil Liberty: An Essay to Show the Injustice and Impolicy of Ruling Woman Without Her Consent (1873) by Ezra Heywood one of first individualist feminist essays, by Ezra Heywood
- Voltairine de Cleyre: The Exquisite Rebel
- Libertarian Feminism: Can This Marriage Be Saved?
- 'Feminism in Liberty' by Sharon Presley.
- Liberal Feminism, essay including discussion of libertarian feminism
External links
- Association of Libertarian Feminists
- iFeminists
- Pro Choice Libertarians
- Women's Freedom Network
- Libertarianism: To Women
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