| Androgynism | Male and female nature in the same individual, wither in terms of sex (biological) or gender (cultural)
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| Classical feminism | The feminist view that women and men ought to be considered person first and gendered beings second.
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| Discriptive | (Refer to Chapter 3)
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| Difference feminism | The feminist view that women and men are fundamentally different, morally and psychologically.
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| Egalitarian | The theory that advocates social equality.
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| Equity feminism | The feminist view that the battle for equality has been won and that further insistence on women's inequality only serves to make women into victims.
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| First-wave feminism | Feminism from the eighteenth century until approximately 1920. See second- and third-wave See second- and third-wave feminism.
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| Gender-neutral | Not gender-specific. Usually used when referring to language. Examples: Scientists must do their research well. Nurses should take good care of their patients.
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| Gender-specific | Applying to one sex only. Examples of gender-specific language: A scientist must do his research well. A nurse should take good care of her patients.
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| Intersexual | A person with both male and female genitalia
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| Matriarchy, matriarchal | A society in which women have great social influence and the words of older women within the family carry much weight. Sometimes taken to mean a society ruled by women.
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| Misogyny | Misgivings about, hatred of , or lack of trust in female human nature. There is no traditional equivalent term for mistrusting male human nature, but such a term might be "misandry".
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| Paterfamilias | The male head of the household.
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| Patriarchy | A society ruled by en, or a society in which men have great social influence.
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| Procreation | Having offspring, giving birth.
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| Psychosexual neutrality | The behaviorist theory that human sexuality is a matter of upbringing (nurture) rather than a hardwiring of the brain (nature).
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| Radical feminism | The feminist view that the root cause of male dominance of women and the discrimination against women must be examined.
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| Second –wave feminism | Feminism in the United States and Europe from the mid-1950s on. Some consider second-wave feminism to have ended by the mid-1980s; others see it as continuing.
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| Third-wave feminism | Feminism from the mid-1980s to the present day.
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