Some critics have argued that modern feminism has lost its
principles. However, feminism is not a stationary idea, and has to
change in order to continue to be useful. Feminism has gone through
many phases or waves since its advent in the United States, from
First Wave Feminism all the way to Fourth Wave Feminism. Just
within the U.S. feminism has changed from a movement focused on
getting women the vote, and from being a movement largely run only
by white, middle-class straight women, to a feminism that attempts
to be more inclusive to all women, regardless of their race,
ability, sexuality, religion, class and other identities. Feminism
has branched into numerous subsets, such as eco-feminism, radical
feminism, and (Multi)Cultural feminism, in an attempt to
acknowledge all women and all their experiences. Feminism in
different countries takes different forms and means different
things. So feminism has changed in many ways since its advent, but
it has not lost its principles. Feminism still seeks to bring
equality to women, and dismantling, and dismantling oppressive
institutions, which are what its principles have always been.