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Feminism aims to establish equal rights and legal protection for women. It involves theories concerned with gender difference and campaigns for women's rights. Feminist history includes three waves from the 19th century to present, and feminist theory emerged from these movements across disciplines. Feminist activists have campaigned for women's legal, workplace, reproductive, and other rights against discrimination.

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Topic: History of Feminism

Feminism aims to establish equal rights and legal protection for women. It involves theories concerned with gender difference and campaigns for women's rights. Feminist history includes three waves from the 19th century to present, and feminist theory emerged from these movements across disciplines. Feminist activists have campaigned for women's legal, workplace, reproductive, and other rights against discrimination.

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TOPIC: HISTORY OF FEMINISM

The term feminism can be used to describe a political,


cultural or economic movement aimed at establishing
equal rights and legal protection for women. Feminism
involves political and sociological theories and
philosophies concerned with issues of gender
difference, as well as a movement that advocates
gender equality for women and campaigns for
women's rights and interests. Although the terms
"feminism" and "feminist" did not gain widespread use
until the 1970s, they were already being used in the
public parlance much earlier; for instance, Katherine
Hepburn speaks of the "feminist movement" in the 1942
film Woman of the Year.
According to Maggie Humm and Rebecca Walker, the
history of feminism can be divided into three waves.
The first feminist wave was in the nineteenth and early
twentieth centuries, the second was in the 1960s and
1970s, and the third extends from the 1990s to the present.
Feminist theory emerged from these feminist
movements. It is manifest in a variety of disciplines such
as feminist geography, feminist history and feminist
literary criticism.
Feminism has altered predominant perspectives in a
wide range of areas within Western society, ranging
from culture to law. Feminist activists have campaigned
for women's legal rights (rights of contract, property
rights, voting rights); for women's right to bodily
integrity and autonomy, for abortion rights, and for
reproductive rights (including access to contraception
and quality prenatal care); for protection of women and
girls from domestic violence, sexual harassment and
rape;for workplace rights, including maternity leave
and equal pay; against misogyny; and against other
forms of gender-specific discrimination against women.
During much of its history, most feminist movements
and theories had leaders who were predominantly
middle-class white women from Western Europe and
North America. However, at least since Sojourner
Truth's 1851 speech to American feminists, women of
other races have proposed alternative feminisms. This
trend accelerated in the 1960s with the Civil Rights
movement in the United States and the collapse of
European colonialism in Africa, the Caribbean, parts of
Latin America and Southeast Asia. Since that time,
women in former European colonies and the Third
World have proposed "Post-colonial" and "Third World"
feminisms. Some Postcolonial Feminists, such as
Chandra Talpade Mohanty, are critical of Western
feminism for being ethnocentric. Black feminists, such as
Angela Davis and Alice Walker, share this view.

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