- Individualist feminism
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 .Fact|date=July 2008Individualist 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).cite book |editor=McElroy, Wendy |authorlink=Wendy McElroy |title=Liberty for Women: Freedom and Feminism in the 21st century |year=2002 |publisher=Ivan R. Dee, Publisher |location= |isbn=978-1-56663-435-9]
Wendy McElroy andChristina Hoff Sommers define individualist feminism in opposition to what they call "political" or "gender feminism ".cite book |author=McElroy, Wendy |title=Liberty for Women: Freedom and Feminism in the 21st century |year=2002 |publisher=Ivan R. Dee, Publisher |isbn=978-1-56663-435-9] cite book |author=Sommers, Christina Hoff |authorlink=Christina Hoff Sommers |title=Who stole feminism?: how women have betrayed women |date=1995 |publisher=Simon & Schuster |location=New York |isbn=0-684-80156-6 |pages=320] Verify source|date=September 2008 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. [ [http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=94369835 NPR] . Transcripts available here: [http://nl.newsbank.com/nl-search/we/Archives?p_product=NR&p_theme=nr&p_action=search&p_maxdocs=200&s_siteloc=TRANSCRIPT&d_origin=newtranscript&p_field_label-0=Topics&p_text_label-0=94369835&s_dispstring=topics(94369835)&xcal_numdocs=20&p_perpage=10&p_sort=YMD_date:D&xcal_useweights=no] ] [ [http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/style/books/reviews/waragainstboys0703.htm 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."]ee also
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Ezra Heywood
*Dora Marsden
*Wendy McElroy
*Tiffany Million
*Carol Moore
*Toni Nathan
*Sharon Presley
*Joan Kennedy Taylor
*Cathy Young
*Libertarianism
*Libertarian perspectives on abortion
*Methodological individualism References
Further reading
* [http://tmh.floonet.net/articles/heywood.html "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
* [http://www.voltairine.org Voltairine de Cleyre: The Exquisite Rebel]
* [http://charleswjohnson.name/essays/libertarian-feminism/ "Libertarian Feminism: Can This Marriage Be Saved?"]
* [http://tmh.floonet.net/articles/femme.html "Feminism in "Liberty"] by Sharon Presley.
* [http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/feminism-liberal/ "Liberal Feminism", essay including discussion of libertarian feminism]External links
* [http://alf.org Association of Libertarian Feminists]
* [http://www.ifeminists.com iFeminists]
* [http://www.pro-choicelibertarians.net Pro Choice Libertarians]
* [http://www.womensfreedom.org Women's Freedom Network]
* [http://chelm.freeyellow.com/women_index.html Libertarianism: To Women]
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