FEMINISM, a term of recent origin to designate the motives and ideas that underlie the modern movement in favour of rights for women. It includes the personal and social as well as the political and economic aspects of the movement and has for its object the placing of woman on a complete equality with man.
See WOMEN, LEGAL POSITION OF; WOMEN'S SUFFRAGE; WOMEN, EDUCATION OF; WOMEN'S CLUBS, THE GENERAL FEDERATION OF; WOMEN, WAR WORK OF HUSBAND AND WIFE: and biographical articles of leaders in women's suffrage.