What is Feminism?

I began to read this assignment having never really even considered feminism. Like many people, I had this preconceived notion that all feminist were all those stereotypical ideas, such as lesbians and man haters, that their opposing forces would like the public to believe. As I read I started to realize that anyone can be a feminist. Jennifer Baumgardner and Amy Richards say, "feminism means that women have the right to enough information to make …

…her back except herself. "Feminism wants you to be whoever you are--but with a political consciousness," according to Baumgardner and Richards. If women do not take part in the social, political, and economic segments of society then they are not valuing nor exercising the rights they have fought so hard for in the hopes for equality. A true feminist recognizes these rights and practices them while pushing for the equality among both gender and race.