Is the Civil Rights Movement causing racism? They are the same concept, how can something that is fighting for equality be causing inequality? The answer is, they can't.
Radical feminism actually seeks to destroy gender inequality by dismantling oppressive institutions.
Yes, society still needs feminism because feminism is a movement that seeks to bring gender equality and society hasn't achieved this yet. Feminism seeks to deal with issues of gender inequality and other forms of oppression such as racism, until everyone is equal within society feminism will exist.
The feminist movement was also known as the women's movement, feminism, or women's liberation. It refers to campaigns that originally were focused on inequality in the workplace for women. Campaigns were use to try and get reform on issues that included equal pay, maternity leave, reproductive rights, and sexual harassment.
Feminist theory doesn't relate to Autism. Feminist theory is philosophical thought out of the feminism movement, discussing issues of gender and social inequality. Feminism does seek to end ableism which can impact on Autistic people.
In terms of American history the movement linked with the second wave of feminism was the civil rights movement and later the anti-war movement.
No, of course feminism is not against the law. Feminism is the movement seeking to make men and women equal.
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I don't believe that there is another word for feminism, the term feminist is clear on it's intentions: a movement to bring about gender equality. There are similar movements such as womanism which is a movement for equality for women of colour, as mainstream feminism is mostly white-centered many black women feel they need their own movement outside feminism to fight for their rights.
Gender refers to characteristics assigned to masculinity or femininity. Feminism is the movement to bring about gender equality.
It refers to a potential criticism of early feminism which promoted the ideals of white, heterosexual, middle class women over all others. Betty Friedan, for instance, said that gender equality (regarding voting) was more important than racial equality. Third wave feminism emphasizes that gender inequality is linked to racial, socioeconomic, and sexual inequality, within interlocking systems of oppression.
First wave feminism ended around 1920, because the Nineteenth Amendment was ratified, giving women the vote. First wave feminism had largely focused on getting the vote. Carrie Chapman Catt, one of the leaders of the Suffrage Movement (within first wave feminism), had in fact desired to make the suffrage movement so central to the first wave feminist movement, that she had bribed newspapers and used contacts in the press to get articles about other aspects of the women's movement removed, so that suffrage was the only issue focused on, in order to make it stronger. After suffrage was achieved, no other movements within first wave feminism really had any momentum, support, visibility, or resources, since so much had been thrown behind the Suffrage Movement, so first wave feminism ended, adn gave way to second wave feminism in the 1960s.