Funny. I've a friend who's a women's and gender studies major and distinguishes between second and third wave feminism, so she is less likely to consider people feminist... they need to fall into one of these two categories and know what it is.
I don't think I really considered myself a feminist until I read Carol Adams' The Sexual Politics of Meat on the intersections between feminism and vegetarianism. I didn't really know anything about it before... now I still would hesitate to call myself a feminist just because I know so little about it and have little compulsion to study it in depth. I would be hard pressed to explain feminism to anyone. I could probably explain anti-oppression a little more easily.
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