Damenism
Damenism is a Vistari social movement and ideological framework which aims to achieve equal rights for women through the empowerment of working women to achieve a more fair balance of domestic and paid labour through a re-examination of the household and legal provisions for women to gain job opportunities and serve in the military.
Emerging into an opposition to perceived threats to the gender binary and the formation of theories separating gender and sex, the movement has its roots in reaction to factionalism within the women's suffrage movement in Vistaraland during the late 1920s. First organized under the Responsible Suffrage Conference (later renamed to the Vistarian National Women's League), early adherents were primarily organized in opposition to perceived radicalism and methods of protest engaged in by suffrage groups inspired more closely by the wider feminist movement and especially those adhering to an anti-capitalist view of women's liberation. As such, the conference soon garnered support from more moderate supporters of suffrage put off by feminist rhetoric and the advocacy for radical social change, combining views on women's rights with more traditional notions of respectability, modesty and an embracing of some aspects of traditional femineity as core to female identity. Such a perspective, as well as a willingness to work within a moderate framework of gradual reform, allowed the movement to act as a more acceptable forum for the advancement of women's interests by the Vistari state and traditional society, which would further cause distance between itself and international feminism as it sought to propose a "Vistarian model of female empowerment" that rejected a redefinition of gender or the notion of state intervention in the economy as a method of creating a gender equal workplace.
Damenist movements remain influential in Vistaraland to this day, both through the Vistarian National Women's League and the adoption of their ideas by liberal and liberal-conservative political organizations aiming to establish support amongst women in white collar positions, bolstered by a number of influential women arising from the middle class.