Equity feminism

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Equity feminism is a phrase coined by Christina Hoff Sommers in her book Who Stole Feminism? (Simon & Schuster, 1994) as opposed to the term gender feminism. It's used to describe an ideology that aims for full civil and legal equality and distinguish it from the term gender feminism, which she uses to describe the idea of much of modern academic feminist theory and the feminist movement which aims at the total abolition of gender roles and structure of the society which they claim is still dominated by patriarchal structures. Hoff Sommers considers this as gynocentrism and misandry that she feels is dominant in the contemporary feminist movement. Christina Hoff Sommers argues, "Most American women subscribe philosophically to the older 'First Wave' kind of feminism whose main goal is equity, especially in politics and education" ¹. Although she realizes that her views are not mainstream in academia or the feminist movement in general, she considers them mainstream among the US population of women ¹.