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The term Feminist Movement was coined in the late nineteenth century to distinguish the Feminist Movement from the Women's Movement, allowing for inclusion of male feminists. [11] The new movement thus prompted the likes of male feminists George Lansbury of the British Labour Party to run for political candidacy on the feminist ticket in 1906. [11]
At the beginning of the last century the creation and the organization of social and feminist movements start in Colombia. Until the 1930s, under the mandate of the Liberal political parties the women's movements managed to consolidate and create a feminism movement, that fought and defend civil and political rights for women.
Ida Bell Wells-Barnett, a key figure in the early feminist movement, faced opposition from white feminist leaders such as Rebecca Latimer Felton and Frances Willard, who saw the feminist movement as an Anglo Saxon pursuit and built their rhetoric on white supremacy: "The Anglo-Saxon race," Willard wrote, "will never submit to be dominated by ...
Despite these reforms, "state feminism" blocked feminist political activism and brought an end to the first-wave feminist movement in Egypt. [257] During Anwar Sadat 's presidency, his wife, Jehan Sadat , publicly advocated for expansion of women's rights, though Egyptian policy and society was in retreat from women's equality with the new ...
Although rooted in Islam, the movement's pioneers have also used secular and Western feminist discourses and recognize the role of Islamic feminism as part of an integrated global feminist movement. [294] Buddhist feminism is a movement that seeks to improve the religious, legal, and social status of women within Buddhism.
Feminist scholar, author; women's movement, lesbian culture, and women's music historian: 1940–1999: Laura Mulvey: United Kingdom: 1941 – 1940–1999: Sally Rowena Munt: United Kingdom: 1960 – Feminist academic and lesbian theorist, author of Heroic Desire: Lesbian Identity and Cultural Space (1998) 1940–1999: Jenni Murray: United ...
The second-wave feminist movement also took a strong stance against physical violence and sexual assault in both the home and the workplace. In 1968, NOW successfully lobbied the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission to pass an amendment to Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, which prevented discrimination based on sex in the workplace ...
Pages in category "Feminist movements and ideologies" The following 68 pages are in this category, out of 68 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. ...