While we are celebrating another international working day during the month of women’s history, it becomes crucial again to make feminism accessible to the masses. At a time when the rights of women are severely violated the younger generation, gender activism is becoming increasingly clear. At this point in time, it is essential that young people do not feel alienated from the global fight against patriarchy and become part of the feminist movement.
Perhaps the most discouraging part of the understanding of feminist theory is the language of this theory. This jargon is often considered inaccessible and holds the prospective feminists from penetrating deeply into the literature around feminism. In feminism in India (FII), we firmly believe how important it is to make intersectional feminism for the base, the masses and people who are just starting with their feminist journey. Since we came across similar glossary in connection with the climate, AI and other niche issues and therefore keep an eye on this thought, Fii has come up with one Comprehensive glossary feminist terms used in gender -specific and intersectional activism. This glossary is an effective guide for every feminist and human rights activist, since it contains comprehensive explaners and examples that easily understand and implement the terms in real life.
From decoding terms such as “Jineology” and “Kyrararcha” to the deconstruction of theoretical concepts such as “Penis Neid”, our glossary is a perfect manual to reduce the patriarchy by grasping language and concepts.
Many of these feminist terms and jargon come from the academic discourse, to which not every access has. In view of the fact that the vision and mission of FII are to make feminism accessible to the masses, it made sense to create a free and accessible repository like this.
Many FII readers are students and research scientists and use our website to learn and inform about gender studies and sociology. A frequent feedback that we receive from our readers who are students is that our content is very helpful for academic purposes. You use it to write your procedures and draw attention to sexual and reproductive health problems.
We have also tried to cover many explaners of menstrual health such as endometriosis and dysmenorrhea. We turned young women to ourselves on social media and claims that our health declarer helped them diagnose their PCOS or menstrual health problems. They explained that our glossary helped them better understand their reproductive and menstrual health. Based on this information, women can now take over their health.
How did we create the glossary?
We searched for words and terms that we often use, but sometimes not the exact definition of. Some came from feminist books, others came from our articles. We thought it would be helpful to have a place where we can easily find your meanings, just like we do with dictionaries. We let our team immerse yourself in these terms, but we encouraged them to disassemble it and explain everything thoroughly by a feminist lens.
We have put together this glossary because there is to be used for readers or students, especially in India. Another main reason is that we want readers and researchers to have a word and their meaning directly on the fingertips, which makes it super easy.
We are a feminist media organization, and we have expanded the conversation about feminism with leaders, tool kits and research articles for over a decade, and now this glossary is a fantastic new resource for all of us.
Why this glossary is important
This resource offers clear and precise definitions of key concepts, historical movements, figures for feminism and questions of sexual and reproductive health. From “intersectionality” to the “patriarchy”, each entry is framed into a simple and accessible language in order to improve the reader’s understanding for feminist discourse. Ideal for students, activists, organizations of civil society, research scientists and everyone who strives for researching gender, sexuality, caste, disability and other such intersections serves as an accessible guide to navigate the language of feminism.
This glossary of terms covers words and phrases that are essential for the structure and expansion of knowledge through intersectional feminism. With them, prospective feminists can confidently navigate their journey to take over and implement feminist terms in their daily work. It is of essential importance to help you to keep up to date and inspire if you deepen the knowledge of the terms that shape the struggle for justice and equality.
Feminism in India is an award-winning digital intersectional feminist media organization in order to learn, raise and develop feminist sensitivity and to struggle the F-word among young people in India.