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Contents 1 Nikki Craft 2 Page moved 3 Ti-Grace Atkinson 4 Simone de Beauvoir 5 Asian feminists? 6 Organization 7 Original research 8 Religious Feminists 9 Dissident and anti-feminists 10 Organizations

[edit] Nikki Craft

Can someone please add/categorize Nikki Craft? Thanks. Dandelion1 00:47, 12 February 2006 (UTC)

Hi, Thanks Dandelion for adding me in the list of feminists. The category I would go in would be Second Wave. Never defined or described myself as a lesbian in public or private at any time in my life, and never been one, so I deleted my name from the list of lesbian feminists and left it on Second Wave. --~~

Is it an ideology to be french? The classification is not very logical. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 217.225.2.57 (talk • contribs) 15:02, 6 December 2004 (UTC).

Can someone please define 'first wave' etc? It is not immediately obvious what this means. Thanks, Mark Richards 05:40, 18 Feb 2004 (UTC)

Copied from Feminism

There's mention of it in the History section, but once I have some free time I'll try and expand/fill it out. I don't understand what you find confusing about List of feminists - it's broken in section of feminist leaning - within feminism there are some different ideologies and so forth. Thanks Dysprosia 04:36, 19 Feb 2004 (UTC)

Can we link to the explanation where the terms 'first wave' and other ideologies etc appear? What I found confusing, was that I didn't know what the terms meant, and so didn't understand how the list was organized. I may be the only one, but a brief paragraph at the head of the list explaining the categorisation might help? Thanks! Mark Richards 23:53, 21 Feb 2004 (UTC)

I added links to all the appropriate articles under each heading. hope that helps folks. Murderbike 10:12, 14 January 2007 (UTC)

Hi, I came back to the page because I have had second thoughts about being listed here as a second wave feminist. Good example of why it's not a good idea to try to fit one's self into categories set up by others. I never use that term and Wikipedia says it ended in 1980. I've been active from 1970 to 2006 and continue to be. I don't even agree with the division, though I would not associate myself with what has come to mean 3rd wave feminism so I'll start another more accurate category for "Radikal Feminism" which is how I categorize myself. --Nikkicraft 03:42, 19 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Page moved

See Wikipedia:Naming_conventions#Lists --Jiang 05:52, 18 Feb 2004 (UTC)

[edit] Ti-Grace Atkinson

I'm not yet ready to write an article on her, but I did want to place her name on this list-article. I noticed, however, that there is no Radical feminists heading. She could just as easily be placed under the Second wave heading, but it seems to me that radical feminism deserves its own heading. Any thoughts? func(talk) 19:41, 20 Sep 2004 (UTC)

[edit] Simone de Beauvoir

Now, I'm not the brightest person in the world, nor do I know much about feminism (despite having written the Ti-Grace Atkinson article), but why is Simone de Beauvoir a first-wave and a second-wave feminist? -- The Great Gavini ^{supporting the feminist cause since...}

^{[edit] Asian feminists?}

^{I was wondering whether there were Chinese, Japanese and Korean feminists. Could they be on this list? Where can I look for examples of their life and work? --Bronwyn Gannan 10:31, 7 May 2006 (UTC).}

^{[edit] Organization}

^{The organization of this list is far too complex and difficult to understand for the non-scholar, and categorization being as such seems to be original research. I suggest something more concrete or chronological. AdamBiswanger1 15:18, 25 July 2006 (UTC)}

^{[edit] Original research}

^{this list appears prone to original research. there are limited sources or citations to backup the inclusion of the people on the list.}

^{[edit] Religious Feminists}

^{Should there be a section of religious feminists? There is an article on Religious feminism. --Nathan Holland 06:04, 14 September 2006 (UTC)}

^{[edit] Dissident and anti-feminists}

^{Dissident feminists, okay, for people who self-describe as feminists but are critical of most feminism. But anti-feminists? I don't think "anti-feminists" should be on a list of "feminists". Wouldn't it make more sense for there to be a separate list of anti-feminists? and these two lists should link to each other? --lquilter 21:43, 9 January 2007 (UTC)}

^{agreed. it would be strange to put a section of satanists in a list of christians. Murderbike 09:52, 14 January 2007 (UTC)}

^{Or "Dissident Christians and atheists" and include Richard Dawkins. <g> --lquilter 15:09, 14 January 2007 (UTC)}

• ^{Well, I changed the section to "Dissident feminists" and took out Ann Coulter who describes as anti-feminist. Except for Norah Vincent, the others I think reasonably qualify as "dissident feminists". Vincent I'm not sure really belongs: I'm not sure she ever describes herself as feminist of any sort. I posted a question on her page. --lquilter 15:09, 14 January 2007 (UTC)}

^{[edit] Organizations}

^{shouldn't there be a section for feminist organizations? they aren't worked into the other categories, so seems it should be added. Murderbike 09:53, 14 January 2007 (UTC)}

• ^{Sounds fine to me. At some point it should be split off. There is a category for Category:Feminist organizations, though -- what do you mean by "they aren't worked into the other categories"? Oh - do you mean, there aren't orgs in the individual subheadings of the article, like 2d wave, 3d wave, etc.? Hmm. If an org specifically defines or aligns or was clearly historically part of a particular subhead then we could put it there. Otherwise maybe just a separate group of generic feminist orgs? --lquilter 14:49, 14 January 2007 (UTC)}

^{yeah, i was referring to the subheadings, not wiki Categories, my flub. i thought of it because of the article i made for Rote Zora, which definitely could go under radical feminism. i just couldn't figure if there was a reason that groups had been left out of this list. Murderbike 23:25, 14 January 2007 (UTC)}