编辑“女性主義”（章节）

=== 男性与男子气概 ===
女性主义理论探讨了男性社会结构及其对性别平等目标的启示。女性主义认为男性社会结构是有问题的，因为它将男性与侵略和竞争联系在一起，强化了[[父權|男权]]的、不平等的性别关系。<ref name="Faludi" /><ref>{{cite book |last=Tong |first=Rosemarie Putnam |title=Feminist Thought: A More Comprehensive Introduction |url=https://archive.org/details/feministthoughtm0000tong |location=Boulder, Colo. |publisher=Westview Press |edition=2nd |year=1998 |isbn=0-8133-3295-8 |page=[https://archive.org/details/feministthoughtm0000tong/page/70 70]}}</ref> 人们批判男性文化“限制了适用于男性的男子气概的形式”，因此减少了他们的生活选择。<ref name="Gardiner">{{cite book |last1=Gardiner |first1=Judith Kegan |title=Masculinity studies and feminist theory |url=https://archive.org/details/masculinitystudi00gard |publisher=Columbia University Press |year=2002 |isbn=0-231-12278-0 |pages =[https://archive.org/details/masculinitystudi00gard/page/96 96], 153}}</ref> 一些女性主义者热衷于男性问题激进主义，例如把注意力放到强奸、伴侣热情度，并探讨了对男性的消极的社会期望。<ref>{{cite journal | last1 = Uviller | first1 = Rena K | year = 1978 | title = Fathers' Rights and Feminism: The Maternal Presumption Revisited | url = | journal = Harv. Women's L.J. | volume = | issue = | page = 107 }}</ref><ref>{{cite journal |last=Shanley |first=Mary |date=January 1995 |title=Unwed fathers’ rights, adoption, and sex equality: Gender-neutrality and the perpetuation of patriarchy |url=http://www.jstor.org/stable/1123127 |journal=Columbia Law Review |volume=95 |pages=60–103 |doi=10.2307/1123127 |access-date=2015-07-13 |archive-date=2016-05-06 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160506164640/http://www.jstor.org/stable/1123127 |dead-url=no }}</ref><ref>Feminism for Men: Legal Ideology and the Construction of Maleness, N Levit – UCLA L. Rev., 1995 – works.bepress.com</ref>

女性主义者鼓励男性参与女权运动，她们认为这是全面实现性别平等这一社会承诺的一个重要策略<ref>Digby, Tom (1998). Men Doing Feminism. New York: Routledge. ISBN 978-0-415-91625-7.</ref><ref>Phillips, Layli, ''The Womanist reader'', CRC Press, 2006, ISBN 978-0-415-95411-2</ref>。许多男性女性主义者和支持女性主义者在女性激进主义运动、女性主义理论和男性调查方面都很活跃。但是，有些人反对说虽然男性参与女权运动是必要的，但由于性别关系中，父权主义的社会影响根深柢固，男性参加女性运动是有困難的。<ref>Jardine, Alice, Paul Smith, ''Men in feminism '', ISBN 978-0-415-90251-9</ref> 在今天，女性主义和男性理论达成的共识是男性和女性都可以并且应该合作起来实现女性主义更大的目标。<ref name="Gardiner" /> 在很大程度上，这一目标可以通过女性机构实现。<ref>Owens, Lisa Lucile, Coerced Parenthood as Family Policy: Feminism, the Moral Agency of Women, and Men's 'Right to Choose' (May 20, 2014). Alabama Civil Rights & Civil Liberties Law Review, Vol. 5, p. 1, 2013. Available at SSRN: http://ssrn.com/abstract=2439294 {{Wayback|url=http://ssrn.com/abstract=2439294 |date=20200529192937 }}</ref>