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The second wave of feminism differed from the first wave. What did modern women want?
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In the first wave of feminism, which began in 1848 with the Seneca Falls convention, the women (and some men) who were involved with the movement were eager for gaining women Suffrage (the right to vote), but they were also interested in other issues. Under the common law in the 1800s, women were considered the property of their husband. Women could not own land or make business decisions, few were allowed to go to college, and if their husband beat them, it was rarely considered a crime (the husband was believed to have the right to "discipline" his wife). So, leading feminists like Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Lucretia Mott, Lucy Stone, and others advocated for women to be treated equally under the law, as well as to have other rights that only men had back then.
Second wave feminists, myself among them, organized during an era (the 1950s-1970s) when many things had improved. Women had the right to vote, many women attended college, and wife-beating was no longer acceptable in society. But we had a different set of issues to contend with: women were not given equal pay for equal work; many occupations were still closed to us even if we had the qualifications; a number of women endured sexual harassment at their job yet it wasn't considered a societal problem; and women were still stereotyped as too emotional and not very intelligent-- this was especially true on television, in movies, and in advertisements. We began the work of changing society's attitudes about what women were capable of. We also advocated for better opportunities for women in predominantly male occupations, and for laws to protect women from sexual harassment.
Anais Lang
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When did the women's rights movement begin?
There were actually two women's rights movements. One, called First Wave Feminism, began in 1848, when a group of women gathered for a conference at Seneca Falls NY; they wanted to work towards greater legal rights for women as well as gaining the vote (women's suffrage). The next women's rights movement, called Second Wave Feminism, began around 1963, with the publication of Betty Friedan's book "The Feminine Mystique" and continued with the founding of the National Organization for Women in 1966.
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The second wave of feminism differed from the first wave because modern wanted what?
voting rights, as well as full equality
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What are political and social causes feminism?
The first wave of feminism was caused by women seeking the right to vote. The second wave of feminism was caused by women seeking the right to equality in employment, education and aspirations. They also sought the right to reproductive freedom.
Is modern a first or second syllable?
MODERN
Is modern first or second syllable?
MODERN
Is modern accented first syllable or second?
second accented syllable
Has modern feminism lost its principles?
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.
Was there a different in all three wave of feminism?
First wave feminism lasted from the 1840s until the 1920s. It was largely started by the the Seneca Falls Convention in 1848, and was focused for the most part on getting women the vote. With the passing of the Nineteenth Amendment in 1920, the movement lost momentum, and floundered until the advent of second wave feminism in the 1960s. Second feminism dealt with equality in job opportunity and pay, and was motivated by the discontent many women felt after having been pushed out of the workforce and back into the home after men returned from the Second World War. Second wave feminism also dealt with reproductive rights, and saw victory with the outcome of Roe v. Wade in 1973. Second Wave feminism continued until the 1980s, and then evolved into third wave feminism that continued to fight for issues like reproductive rights and employment issues, but also sought to reconcile itself with women who had largely been ignored in first and second wave feminism, which were largely middle-class white women's movements. Third wave feminism began working to solve issues faced by women of color, queer women, women with disabilities, working class women, and to include them in the larger feminist movement.
How did feminism end?
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.
What are the waves of feminism?
First wave feminism took place in the late 1800s and early 1900s where it focused on legal issues such as the women's right to vote.Second wave feminism took place between the 1960s and the 1980s and was more focused on issues like sexual harassment in the workplace and domestic abuse/marital rape.Third wave feminism grew out of second wave feminism and has been active since the 1990s. Its focus is more on social issues rather than legal or economic ones.
How do modern Thanksgivings differ from the first Thanksgiving with the pilgrims?
Well first of all we do not have a Indian tribe come over. Turkey was very rare, if there were any at all, so it has differed so much.
