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The 19th- and early 20th-century feminist activity in the English-speaking world that sought to win women's suffrage, female education rights, better working conditions, and abolition of gender double standards is known as first-wave feminism.
[5] [6] Second-wave feminism was a period of feminist activity and thought that began in the early 1960s in the United States, and spread throughout the Western world and beyond. In the United States the movement lasted through the early 1980s.
The history of the modern western feminist movement is divided into multiple "waves". [34] [35] [36] The first comprised women's suffrage movements of the 19th and early-20th centuries, promoting women's right to vote. The second wave, the women's liberation movement, began in the 1960s and campaigned for legal and social equality for women.
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]
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.
Here’s what 12 game-changing activists and influencers had to say about the meaning of "feminism."
Protofeminism is a concept that anticipates modern feminism in eras when the feminist concept as such was still unknown. [1] This refers particularly to times before the 20th century, [ 2 ] [ 3 ] although the precise usage is disputed, as 18th-century feminism and 19th-century feminism are often subsumed into "feminism".