What is feminism?
feminism is a political ideology based on a range of social movements, political movements and ideologies meant to define, establish, and achieve the political, economic, personal, and social equality of the sexes.
Feminism first began with its first wave in the 19th and 20th century which focused on legal issues mostly giving the women the right to vote.
In 1963 t the Feminine Mystique was published it was a book published by Betty Friedan that made
the start of the second wave movement of feminism, this wave first started in the us then spread to h western world in Europe in ti h rest dry worl. Also we should not forget the black feminism movement which became popular in the 1960s in response to the sexism of the civil rights movement and racism of he feminist movement.
In the 1980s, difference feminism was developed in reaction to a popular liberal feminism, which emphasizes the similarities between women and men in order to argue for equal treatment to spent Difference feminism, although it is still aimed at equality between men and women, emphasizes the differences between men and women and argues that identicality or sameness are not necessary in order for men and women, and masculine and feminine values, to be treated equally. Liberal feminism aims to make society and law gender-neutral, since it sees recognition of gender difference as a barrier to rights and participation within liberal democracy while difference feminism holds that gender-neutrality harms women.
Third-wave feminism is associated with the emergence of riot grrrl, the feminist punk subculture, in the early 1990s in Olympia, Washington. In 1991 Anita Hill testified in Washington, D.C. to an all-male, all-white Senate Judiciary Committee that Clarence Thomas, nominated for the Supreme Court of the United States, had sexually harassed her. Rebecca Walker responded to Thomas's appointment with an article in Ms. Magazine, "Becoming the Third Wave" (1992), which coined the term third wave: "Do not vote for them unless they work for us. Do not have sex with them, do not break bread with them, do not nurture them if they don't prioritize our freedom to control our bodies and our lives. I am not a post-feminism feminist. I am the Third Wave." The third wave focused on abolishing gender-role stereotypes and expanding feminism to include women of all races, classes and cultures.
During the 2010s, especially during 2012, fourth wave of the feminism movement began and is associated with the use of social medi. Key issues include the fiht include he fight avast street and workplace harassment, campus sexual assault and rape culture.
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