“Originally used in the 1890’s to describe a belief in sexual equality and commitment to eradicate sexual domination and transform society, feminism depends on an understanding. . . . . . sexuality is held as the cause of their oppression.” (Page 7)
This quote explains the way people have a understanding of feminism. It is mostly understood to be the advocacy of women’s rights on the grounds of political, social, and economic equality to men. There are some pros and cons to the understanding of feminism and which many do say that it was a a cause of being a cruel and unjust subject to touch on.
“Spaces can enhance or restrict, nuture, or impoverish”. (Page 4)
This quote talks about how the different spaces they provide for women and men can enhance, block them from something, it can also care for the development and improvement of women, or it can exhaust the strength, vitality, or natural fertility of the entire situation.
“The variation between first-wave and second-wave feminism can be summarized. . . . . women and from each other.” (Page 16)
This quote summarized the first and second wave of feminism which is that it is a shift in focus from equality to difference, from addressing the inequalities of the state, to addressing the differences of women from men and from each other.