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Early American proponent of female equality and author of On the Equality of the Sexes [40] 1700–1799: John Neal: United States: 1793: 1876: Writer, critic, and first American women's rights lecturer [41] [42] 1700–1799: Sarah Ponsonby: Ireland: 1755: 1831: One of the Ladies of Llangollen [28] 1700–1799: Mary Shelley: United Kingdom: 1797 ...
The feminist movement in the late 1970s, led by NOW, briefly attempted a program to help older divorced and widowed women. Many widows were ineligible for Social Security benefits, few divorcees actually received any alimony, and after a career as a housewife, few had skills to enter the labor force.
In the 1960s, feminism again became a part of debate in Finland after the publication of Anna-Liisa Sysiharjun's Home, Equality and Work (1960) and Elina Haavio-Mannilan's Suomalainen nainen ja mies (1968), [64] and the student feminist group Yhystis 9 (1966–1970) addressed issues such as the need for free abortions. [64]
American feminist Toni Cade Bambara published The Black Woman. [57] On August 26, 1970, the 50th anniversary of woman suffrage in the U.S., tens of thousands of women across the nation participated in the Women's Strike for Equality, organized by Betty Friedan and thought up by Betty Jameson Armistead to demand equal rights. [58] [59]
The women's liberation movement in North America was part of the feminist movement in the late 1960s and through the 1980s. Derived from the civil rights movement, student movement and anti-war movements, the Women's Liberation Movement took rhetoric from the civil rights idea of liberating victims of discrimination from oppression.
Ebba von Eckermann (1866–1960) – women's rights activist; Ruth Gustafson (1881–1960) – politician, trade unionist, women's rights activist, editor; Anna Hierta-Retzius (1841–1924) – women's rights activist and philanthropist; Lilly Engström (1843–1921) – women's rights activist, government official
Black feminism became popular in the 1960s, in response to the sexism of the civil rights movement and racism of the feminist movement. Fat feminism originated in the late 1960s. Fat feminism, often associated with "body-positivity", is a social movement that incorporates feminist themes of equality, social justice , and cultural analysis based ...
American feminists of Asian descent (1 C, 10 P) H. ... American feminist musicians (280 P) N. National Organization for Women people (1 C, 62 P) Native American ...