Is feminism a philosophy?

answers1: A lot of people call it a personality trait
answers2: Well there are a lot of feminists who sometimes call
themselves philosophers: Judith Butler, Luce Irigaray come to mind
from the past 50 years or so. Butler's first appointment was in a
philosophy department. <br>
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But feminism isn't necessarily a traditional area of philosophical
study, except where it comes into contact with philosophical topic,
like language (Irigaray/Butler) or identity (Butler).
answers3: it sorta can be
answers4: Here is what the Stanford Ency. of Philosophy says <a
href="http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/feminism-approaches/"
rel="nofollow"class=Clr-b>http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/femini...</a>
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And the Internet Ency. of Phil. <a
href="http://www.iep.utm.edu/category/traditions/feminist/"
rel="nofollow"class=Clr-b>http://www.iep.utm.edu/category/traditio...</a>
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<a href="http://www.cddc.vt.edu/feminism/phi.html"
rel="nofollow"class=Clr-b>http://www.cddc.vt.edu/feminism/phi.html</a>
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You have heard of Black Liberation Theology? (Rev. Jeremiah Wright)
Women did the same thing in the 1960s and 70s--they said they were
held down by men and they deserved equality, but this would have meant
putting many undeserving women in positions they were not qualified to
fill. They did have to earn those positions, because of many reasons:
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too many women had not attempted to rise, making it appear women were
held back <br>
too many women were actually held back, but in proportion to those who
didn't try, the worthy ones were a minority (nevertheless that was
unfair) <br>
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But when a woman did rise to the top she was usually excoriated for
not being a feminist! This was one opinion in 1991: <br>
"While feminists claim to be pursuing justice for women, it is
becoming ever more apparent that their actual goal is the obliteration
of justice. More precisely, their aim is to eliminate that which makes
justice possible: objective standards. <br>
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Instead of urging employers, for example, to adopt objective standards
of merit in hiring and to apply them consistently to all candidates,
irrespective of the (irrelevant) fact of gender, feminists call for
the very opposite. They demand the lowering or the suspension of
standards, in order to accommodate certain women. They no longer argue
that women who meet objective qualifications ought not to be rejected
solely on account of their sex (an argument which would merit moral,
though not legislative, backing); rather, they declare that females
who fail to qualify should be accepted solely on account of their
sex." http://www.aynrand.org/site/News2?page=NewsArticle&id=5216