• "I myself have never been able to find out precisely what feminism is; I only know that people call me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat." Rebecca West, 1913, novelist and journalist
• "Feminism is the radical notion that women are people." Cheris Kramare & Paula Treichler (Authors of "A Feminist Dictionary" Pandora Press, 1985)
• "Feminism...is a belief that women matter as much as men do..." Marily French in The Guardian, 2 July 2003

• Women do two thirds of the world's work, receive 10% of the world's income and own 1% of the means of production (Richard H. Robbins, Global Problems and the Culture of Capitalism (Allyn and Bacon 1999(
• Two thirds of the world's 876 million illiterates are women (The World's Women, 2000)
• More than 1 billion people live in abject poverty on less than $1 a day. 70% of people in abject poverty are women (www.kamilat.org)
• At least one out of every three women has been beaten, coerced into sex, or otherwise abused in her lifetime, according to a study based on 50 surveys from around the world (Amnesty International UK)
  

• Black British Feminism, by Heidi Safia Mirza
• Feminism in 2007, opening speech by Kat Banyard at FEM 07 (FEM Conferences)
• Birth of Feminisms, lecture by Dr Cecily Jones, University of Warwick
• Involving Men, speech by Kat Banyard at FEM 07

 

This page is under development! If there are specific things about feminism you would like to find out on this page (such as 'the truth behind the myths' - coming soon!) then let us know! Email katbanyard@yahoo.co.uk

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