Editing Jane Fonda (section)

===Feminist causes===
In a 2017 interview with [[Brie Larson]], published by ''[[People (magazine)|People]]'' magazine, Fonda stated, "One of the great things the women's movement has done is to make us realise that (rape and abuse is) not our fault. We were violated and it's not right." She said, "I've been raped, I've been sexually abused as a child and I've been fired because I wouldn't sleep with my boss." She said, "I always thought it was my fault; that I didn't do or say the right thing. I know young girls who've been raped and didn't even know it was rape. They think, 'It must have been because I said 'no' the wrong way.'"

Through her work, Fonda said she wants to help abuse victims "realize that [rape and abuse] is not our fault". Fonda said that her difficult past led her to become such a passionate activist for women's rights. The actress is an active supporter of the V-Day movement, which works to stop violence against women and girls. In 2001, she established the Jane Fonda Center for Adolescent Reproductive Health, which aims to help prevent teen pregnancy. She said she was "brought up with the disease to please" in her early life.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-39151842 |title=Jane Fonda reveals rape and child abuse |date=March 3, 2017 |access-date=January 5, 2019 |work=BBC News |archive-date=June 15, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180615000716/https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-39151842 |url-status=live }}</ref> Fonda revealed in 2014 that her mother, [[Frances Ford Seymour]], was recurrently sexually abused as young as eight, and this may have led to her suicide when Jane was 12.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://people.com/movies/jane-fonda-reveals-she-was-raped-and-sexually-abused-as-a-child-i-always-thought-it-was-my-fault/ |title=Jane Fonda Reveals She Was Raped – and Sexually Abused as a Child: 'I Always Thought It Was My Fault' |newspaper=People |date=March 2, 2017 |access-date=March 3, 2017 |archive-date=March 3, 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170303124908/http://people.com/movies/jane-fonda-reveals-she-was-raped-and-sexually-abused-as-a-child-i-always-thought-it-was-my-fault/ |url-status=live }}</ref>

[[File:Ms. magazine Cover - Winter 2006.jpg|thumbnail|Fonda on the cover of [[Ms. (magazine)|''Ms.'' magazine]] in 2006]]

Fonda has been a longtime supporter of feminist causes, including [[V-Day (movement)|V-Day]], of which she is an honorary chairperson, a movement to stop violence against women, inspired by the off-Broadway hit ''[[The Vagina Monologues]]''. She was at the first summit in 2002, bringing together founder [[Eve Ensler]], Afghan women oppressed by the [[Taliban]], and a [[Kenya]]n activist campaigning to save girls from [[Female genital mutilation|genital mutilation]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.vday.org/static/presskit/2007OnlinePressKit.pdf|title=V-Day's 2007 Press Kit|publisher=V-Day|access-date=February 15, 2008|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080227203051/http://www.vday.org/static/presskit/2007OnlinePressKit.pdf|archive-date=February 27, 2008}}</ref>

In 2001, she established the Jane Fonda Center for Adolescent Reproductive Health at [[Emory University]] in [[Atlanta]] to help prevent adolescent pregnancy through training and program development.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://gynob.emory.edu/jfc_prog_teenservices.cfm|title=Jane Fonda Center for Adolescent Reproductive Health|publisher=Emory University, Department of Gynecology and Obstetrics|access-date=February 3, 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20051111100335/http://gynob.emory.edu/jfc_prog_teenservices.cfm|archive-date=November 11, 2005}}</ref> On February 16, 2004, Fonda led a march through [[Ciudad Juárez]], with [[Sally Field]], [[Eve Ensler]] and other women, urging Mexico to provide sufficient resources to newly appointed officials in helping investigate the murders of hundreds of women in the rough border city.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.cbsnews.com/news/actresses-speak-out-in-mexico-city/|title=Actresses Speak Out in Mexico City|work=CBS News|access-date=February 15, 2008|date=May 10, 2006|archive-date=September 11, 2007|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070911005954/http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2006/05/10/entertainment/main1604992.shtml|url-status=live}}</ref> In 2004, she also served as a mentor to the first all-[[transgender]] cast of ''The Vagina Monologues''.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://ai.eecs.umich.edu/people/conway/TS/Beautiful%20Daughters/Beautiful%20Daughters.html|title=Beautiful Daughters|last1=Aronson|first1=Josh|last2=Jordan|first2=Ariel Orr|access-date=October 2, 2008|archive-date=June 7, 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110607125545/http://ai.eecs.umich.edu/people/conway/TS/Beautiful%20Daughters/Beautiful%20Daughters.html|url-status=dead}}</ref> In the days before the September 17, 2006, Swedish elections, Fonda went to Sweden to support the new political party [[Feministiskt initiativ]] in their election campaign.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.metro.se/se/article/2006/09/15/13/5501-23/index.xml|title=Jane Fonda FI:s galjonsfigur för en dag|publisher=Metro International|access-date=February 15, 2008|date=September 9, 2006|language=sv|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080228020707/http://www.metro.se/se/article/2006/09/15/13/5501-23/index.xml|archive-date=February 28, 2008|url-status=dead}}</ref>

In ''My Life So Far'', Fonda stated that she considers [[patriarchy]] to be harmful to men as well as women. She also states that for many years, she feared to call herself a feminist, because she believed that all feminists were "anti-male". But now, with her increased understanding of patriarchy, she feels that feminism is beneficial to both men and women, and states that she "still loves men", adding that when she divorced Ted Turner, she felt like she had also divorced the world of patriarchy, and was very happy to have done so.{{sfn|Fonda|2005}}

In April 2016, Fonda said that while she was 'glad' that [[Bernie Sanders]] was running, she predicted [[Hillary Clinton]] would become the first female [[President of the United States|president]], whose supposed win Fonda believed would result in a "violent backlash." Clinton did not become president and got defeated by [[Republican Party (United States)|Republican Party]]'s nominee businessman [[Donald Trump]] in the general election later that year. Fonda went on to say that we need to "help men understand why they are so threatened – and change the way we view masculinity".<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/film/2016/apr/15/jane-fonda-hillary-clinton-tribeca-film-festival|title=Jane Fonda at Tribeca: 'Hillary Clinton will be president'|last=Smith|first=Nigel M.|date=April 15, 2016|work=The Guardian|access-date=May 8, 2017|issn=0261-3077|archive-date=April 22, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170422183557/https://www.theguardian.com/film/2016/apr/15/jane-fonda-hillary-clinton-tribeca-film-festival|url-status=live}}</ref> In March 2020, Fonda endorsed Sanders for the Democratic nomination in the [[2020 United States presidential election|2020 election]], calling him the "climate candidate."<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/jane-fonda-endorse-bernie-sanders-climate-change-green-new-deal-aoc-biden-a9389181.html|title=Jane Fonda endorses 'climate candidate' Bernie Sanders in 2020 Democratic race|publisher=Independent|access-date=March 27, 2021|date=March 10, 2020|archive-date=June 28, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210628033558/https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/jane-fonda-endorse-bernie-sanders-climate-change-green-new-deal-aoc-biden-a9389181.html|url-status=live}}</ref>