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Gender FeminismGender feminism is a phrase coined by Christina Hoff Sommers in her book Who Stole Feminism (Simon & Schuster, 1994) to describe the mainstream of the contemporary feminist movement, which she felt was unduly gynocentric. She contrasted this term with "equity feminism." This "gender feminism" which Sommers referred to used to be called "cultural feminism", which during the first wave of feminism was pioneered by Magaret Fuller, and during the second wave by the radical feminists. Lately Naomi Wolf has also called this type of feminism "victim feminism" for its obsessive use of the stereotype of females as helpless victims as a way to gain more power for women. Thus both "gender feminism" and "victim feminism" are perjorative terms critics have recently developed to characterize cultural feminism.
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