Which statement is true? *Feminism and gay rights were political and social movements. (was the right answer for me on apx)
Feminism and gay rights were political and social movements
political and social movements
It's called being a proponent of gay rights.
Most people in the United States maintained conservative values during those years. It was the decade that preceded feminism, gay rights, and Black civil rights.
There are periods of backlash against any rights movement - feminism, black civil rights movements, trans rights, gay rights, etc. This is because people are invested in the systems of oppression that exist, if people are in a privileged position they don't want that to change and will fight against the idea of taking away their privilege. For example feminism fights against issues such as street harassment, queue a backlash from men who want to continue mistreating women on the street.
Feminism is fighting for the rights and empowerment as well as equity for women.
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The main "goal" of the Second Wave was reproductive rights. We can see this in the large fight surrounding Roe V. Wade.
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I'd argue that if black feminism didn't exist there would still be womanism, and whether there was a term for black feminism/womanism or not black women would still be fighting for their rights as human beings. Feminism is overwhelmingly white-centered, however consider before the suffrage (white women fighting for white womens rights, and ignoring the rights of women of colour) black women were still fighting for their rights to exist and to their freedom - white feminism is a small island in a sea of history of women fighting for their rights to be treated as equals.