The
abortion-rights movement also referred to as the
pro-choice movement, advocates for legal access to induced
abortion services including elective
abortion. It is the argument against the anti-
abortion movement. The
Abortion rights movement seeks out to represent and support women who wish to abort their baby at any point during their pregnancy. This movement puts efforts to establish a right for women to freely make the choice to have an
abortion without discrimination based on their decision.
Sexism is prejudice or discrimination based on one's sex or gender.
Sexism can affect anyone, but it primarily affects women and girls. It has been linked to stereotypes and
gender roles, and may include the belief that one sex or gender is intrinsically superior to another. Extreme
sexism may foster sexual harassment, rape, and other forms of sexual violence. Gender discrimination may encompass
sexism, and is discrimination toward people based on their gender identity or their gender or sex differences. Gender discrimination is especially defined in terms of workplace inequality. It may arise from social or cultural customs and norms.
Queer is an umbrella term for sexual and gender minorities who are not heterosexual or are not cisgender. Beginning in the late 1980s,
queer activists, such as the members of
Queer Nation, began to reclaim the word as a deliberately provocative and politically
radical alternative to the more assimilationist branches of the
LGBT community. In the 21st century,
queer became increasingly used to describe a broad spectrum of non-normative sexual and gender identities and politics. Academic disciplines such as
queer theory and
queer studies share a general opposition to binarism, normativity, and a perceived lack of
intersectionality, some of them only tangentially connected to the
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Queer arts,
queer cultural groups, and
queer political groups are examples of modern expressions of
queer identities.
Patriarchy is a social system in which men hold primary power and predominate in roles of political leadership, moral authority, and social
privilege. A patriarchal
society consists of a male-dominated power structure throughout organized
society and in individual relationships. Most contemporary societies are, in practice, patriarchal.
Patriarchy is associated with a set of ideas, a patriarchal
ideology that acts to explain and justify this dominance and attributes it to inherent natural differences between men and women.
Feminist theorists have expanded the
definition of patriarchal
society to describe a systemic bias against women, and most feminists saw that
oppression of women
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society.