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  2. Gender and politics - Wikipedia

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    There are a number of institutes and centers devoted to the study of gender and politics. The Center for American Women and Politics in the Eagleton Institute of Politics at Rutgers University is dedicated to the study of women's political participation in the United States. [16]

  3. Feminism - Wikipedia

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    Women who were radicalized during the 1960s by political debate and sexual liberation; but the failure of radicalism to produce substantive change for women galvanized them to form consciousness-raising groups and set about analysing, from different perspectives, dominant cinema's construction of women. [241]

  4. Femininity - Wikipedia

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    Women in Ancient Greece wore himations; and in Ancient Rome women wore the palla, a rectangular mantle, and the maphorion. [ 54 ] The typical feminine outfit of aristocratic women of the Renaissance was an undershirt with a gown and a high-waisted overgown, and a plucked forehead and beehive or turban-style hairdo.

  5. Feminist theory - Wikipedia

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    In the most general terms, feminist literary criticism before the 1970s was concerned with the politics of women's authorship and the representation of women's condition within literature. [65] Since the arrival of more complex conceptions of gender and subjectivity, feminist literary criticism has taken a variety of new routes.

  6. Women in government - Wikipedia

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    Despite the new 13th NPC lineup including 742 women out of 2,980 representatives, about 24.9% of the total with a 1.5% increase from the prior term, [160] there is little presence of women in the central power structure of major government organs and their political influence is vastly diminished as they climb up the political ladder.

  7. Gender - Wikipedia

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    The red (left) is the female Venus symbol. The blue (right) represents the male Mars symbol. Gender includes the social, psychological, cultural and behavioral aspects of being a man, woman, or other gender identity. [1] [2] Depending on the context, this may include sex-based social constructs (i.e. gender roles) as well as gender expression.

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  9. Feminism and equality - Wikipedia

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    Difference feminism is based on the assumption that women and men are different, that for women to be equal to men means to be like men, which is not desirable. [10] Instead of equality, difference feminism is based on women having freedom. [9] In 1916, Charlotte Perkins Gilman argued for feminism without calling for "equality".