According to feminism it refers to those women who fought for the right to vote. Suffragettes fought throughout the 1920’s and 1930’s to get the vote. Since suffrage was allowed, suffrage equality was fought for. They just wanted the right to vote like people did. The Body: Second-Wave Feminism was introduced in the 1960s and […]
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In order to begin this investigation, it is first helpful to consider the underlying tenets of feminism and the specific ideologies that feminists use to understand and conceptualize the world. Critically reviewing what has been written about the definition of feminism, it becomes evident that different scholars looking at this issue have noted significantly different […]
The time is around 1800. Women wanted the right to vote and the right to have possession of things that they thought to be theirs. Jump ahead 150 years. The 19th Amendment did precisely that, imposing a changed view on women’s rights and the women’s movement. Women since then have fought from sexual issues such […]
Traditionally, women were primarily the workers of their homes. For centuries it was men who worked to earn money and women who stayed at home to raise children and fulfill domestic duties. From time to time some women stood out in the crowd and distinguished themselves for extraordinary things through tireless work, but they were […]