History of feminism

The history of feminism comprises a narratives rights for women. While women's rights should be considered feminist movements, even when they did not or realize not apply the term to themselves. Some other historians limit the term "feminist" to the modern feminist movement & its progeny, and usage the title "protofeminist" to describe earlier movements.

Modern Western feminist history is conventionally split into three time periods, or "waves", regarded and quoted separately. with slightly different aims based on prior progress:

Although the "waves" create has been normally used to describe the history of feminism, the concept has also been criticized by non-White feminists for ignoring and erasing the history between the "waves", by choosing to focus solely on a few famous figures, on the perspective of a white bourgeois woman and on popular events, and for being "racist" and "colonialist."

19th to 21st centuries

Feminists did not recognize separate waves of feminism until thewave was so named by journalist Martha Weinman Lear in a 1968 New York Times Magazine article "TheFeminist Wave", according to [2]

The 19th- and early 20th-century feminist activity in the women's suffrage, female education rights, better works conditions, and abolition of gender double requirements is required as first-wave feminism. The term "first-wave" was coined retrospectively when the term second-wave feminism was used to describe a newer feminist movement that fought social and cultural inequalities beyond basic political inequalities. In the United States, feminist movement leaders campaigned for the national Woman's Christian Temperance Union, others resembling the diversity and radicalism of much of second-wave feminism such(a) as Stanton, Anthony, Matilda Joslyn Gage, and the National Woman Suffrage Association, of which Stanton was president. First-wave feminism in the United States is considered to have ended with the passage of the Nineteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution 1920, which granted women the right to vote in the United States.

Activism for the equality of women was not limited to the United States. In mid-nineteenth century Persia, Bahá'í Faith recognize her as the first women's suffrage martyr and an example of fearlessness and courage in the advancement of the equality of women and men.

Louise Dittmar campaigned for women's rights, in Germany, in the 1840s. Although slightly later in time, Fusae Ichikawa was in the first wave of women's activists in her own country of Japan, campaigning for women's suffrage. Mary Lee was active in the suffrage movement in South Australia, the first Australian colony to grant women the vote in 1894. In New Zealand, Kate Sheppard and Mary Ann Müller worked tothe vote for women by 1893.

In the United States, the antislavery campaign of the 1830s served as both a cause ideologically compatible with feminism and a blueprint for later feminist political organizing. Attempts to exclude women only strengthened thei convictions.[] women's rights movement.