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  2. Feminism in the United Kingdom - Wikipedia

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    The United Kingdom signed the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women in 1981 and ratified it in 1986. [104] Female genital mutilation was outlawed in the UK by the Prohibition of Female Circumcision Act 1985, which made it an offence to perform FGM on children or adults. [105]

  3. Timeline of feminism - Wikipedia

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    First-wave feminism was a period of feminist activity and thought that occurred within the 19th and early 20th century throughout the world. It focused on legal issues, primarily on gaining women's suffrage (the right to vote).

  4. History of feminism - Wikipedia

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    Kira Cochrane, author of All the Rebel Women: The Rise of the Fourth Wave of Feminism, [228] defines fourth-wave feminism as a movement that is connected through technology. [229] [230] Researcher Diana Diamond defines fourth-wave feminism as a movement that "combines politics, psychology, and spirituality in an overarching vision of change." [231]

  5. A brief history on the evolution of feminism

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    The waves of feminism (in under 2 minutes) Women have been campaigning for equal rights for generations. The first wave of feminism came about during the 19th and early 20th centuries.

  6. Women's liberation movement in the United Kingdom - Wikipedia

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    The movement emerged from earlier developments in women's and workers' liberation and civil rights in the UK, including equal suffrage ideologies, and proto-feminist writing, and generated new movements in feminist, queer, and anti-racist activism in the UK into the late 20th and 21st centuries.

  7. History of women in the United Kingdom - Wikipedia

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    Economic history of the United Kingdom, after 1700; Feminism in the United Kingdom; Greenham Common Women's Peace Camp; Historiography of the British Empire; Historiography of the United Kingdom; List of female members of the House of Lords; Social history of England; Social history of the United Kingdom (1945–present) Suffrage in the United ...

  8. Category:Feminism in the United Kingdom - Wikipedia

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    First-wave feminism in the United Kingdom (1 C, 24 P) M. ... Feminism in the United Kingdom; 0–9. 100 Years of Women in Transport; A. Alice Acland (social activist)

  9. Second-wave feminism - Wikipedia

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    Second-wave feminism was a period of feminist activity that began in the early 1960s and lasted roughly two decades, ending with the feminist sex wars in the early 1980s [1] and being replaced by third-wave feminism in the early 1990s. [2]