For this entry, the authors have adopted Valentine Moghadem's definition of feminism: “feminism is a theoretical perspective, and a practice that criticizes social and gender inequalities, aims at women's empowerment, and seeks to transform knowledge – and in some interpretations, to transform socio-economic structures, political power and international relations” (Moghadam 2002, 45). Defined in this way, feminism may have different specific objectives depending on the social, economic, and poli…