When I was reading the essay ” Feminist Politics Where We Stand” Belle Hooks defined feminism as “a movement to end sexism, sexist exploitation, and oppression” this definition that the author gave means that the movement is not about anti male, the major problem here is sexism they just didn’t want to have equal rights to men they wanted for the neglect towards women to stop. The word feminism means ” the advocacy of women’s rights on the basis of the equality of the sexes”. Besides the sexism there was also racism. The quote the author stated was “Early on most feminist activists (a majority of whom were white) had their consciousness raised about the nature of male domination when they were working in anti-classist and anti-racist settings with men who were telling the world about the importance of freedom while subordinating the women in their ranks.” So black women did have much support in this movement. But black women were working towards civil rights and black liberation and Native American women were fighting for indigenous rights. This definition compares to what I thought feminism meant but it was similar because I originally thought feminism meant women who were fighting to have equal rights to men but thats not the full definition it’s part of it. When I was reading ” Sex Gender 101″ I had the same definition as everyone else did about gender. The definition for gender is either of the two sexes (male and female), especially when considered with reference to social and cultural differences rather than biological ones. The term is also used more broadly to denote a range of identities that do not correspond to established ideas of male and female. Their definition of gender is Men have XY chromosomes and that develops to the male sex hormones, the testosterone, and male reproductive organs like the testes and penis. Puberty for men develops secondary sex characteristics such as facial, pubic and body hair and a deeper voice. For us females we have XX chromosomes, this develops the female sex hormones for example estrogen, and female reproductive organs like the ovaries, uterus, and vagina. Puberty for women is a bit similar to puberty for men, we have secondary sex characteristics such as breast development, pubic and body hair and wider hips. People have one mentally about gender, but “Gender refers to the social and cultural roles that males and females are expected to subscribe to based on their biological sex”. But my point of view has changed for both definitions of gender and feminism.