Feminism

Feminists are not irritating - what is irritating is the idea that some people think a movement seeking equality is 'irritating'. Feminism is a necessity within society, it's needed as long as there is a lack of equality between the sexes.

Though the wife of bath is often associated with feminism, she has little to do with the movement. In her prologue, she often speaks of her ability of using words to manipulate her five husbands. Yet, this presents a special problem. Words and language usually derive their meaning from the society from which they were born. The Wife of Bath lives in a patriarchal society. Therefore, she can only defend her views through the use of a vernacular, a completely self-defeating attempt at autonomy. No true feminist would fall victim to such a fallacy. The character herself is mainly a satire created by Chaucer.

Schlafly believed that feminists were undermining traditional family values.

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just like a regular feminist critic

The women's right movement actually started in the early 1900's with the movement to have women gain the right to vote. Susan B. Anthony was one of the early movement leaders.

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Feminists are not evil. But they are misunderstood. Feminists are essentially anyone, woman or man, who believes that women should have the same rights as men. Those who consider themselves feminists, however, are actively trying to make the livelihoods of women equal to those of men. They are trying to make it so that female employees get the same salary as male employees for the same job. So that women get the same respect & treatment as men do in daily life. They are fighting to get women in third world countries basic human rights. Feminists are trying to make the world an equal place for both men & women alike to live in. There are a lot of myths about feminists. Those myths stem from a small percentage of feminists whose views have, unfortunately, created the negative way most people view all feminists. This small portion of feminists believe that all men are evil. They basically hate men. They feel that all the evil in the world is attributed to men &, truthfully, would be thrilled if all men just disappeared off the face of the earth & they could live in a world where men did not exist. They are known as the "radical-lesbian-feminists" & their incredibly extreme views have adversely effected the way people view not only feminists, but lesbians as well. It is why a great deal of people still believe that lesbians hate men, which is absolutely not true. Many of these women, if not most, are/were not even lesbians, just women who, probably because of childhood experiences, hate men. That is one myth right there. A lot of people believe that all feminists are lesbians, & that is not true. Many straight women, bi women & many men are feminists. Feminists come in all races, creeds, colors, sexes... Many celebrities are feminists. Another myth which is held by a lot of people is that all feminists are dirty, unkempt, unhygienic, etc. This is also untrue as feminists do, in fact, take regular showers, baths, & take care of themselves. Until recently, I believed most of those myths & negative stereotypes which are placed on feminists. Until I learned otherwise, that is. I knew nothing of feminists except what I had always heard/been told. I pretty much thought they were evil myself. I didn't particularly like them & disagreed with pretty much everything they stood for. That was when I knew absolutely nothing of what they stood for. After I became a little more informed, however, I found that I actually do agree with most, if not all, of what they stand for. You should try doing some research on feminists yourself if you still believe they are evil. Try an encyclopedia, google-ing it, wiki-ing it... & you will find some more info on feminists. It depends on what you mean by feminist.

gender isssues is imperative when it comes to the development of acountry. it brings equal power for both male and female.

it made abortion legal (apex)

It didn’t. Women went back to the house and raising children after the war. It will be 40 years before there is a women’s movement.

Radical feminism actually seeks to destroy gender inequality by dismantling oppressive institutions.

Given the inequalities that continue to exist between men and women, feminism in general provides an important social function in making the argument in different ways and in different contexts that women are and should be equal to men. Like for instance back in the early 1900's most men thought that women voting was some radical idea but now it's the norm.

• 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.

Yes, Islamic feminism is truly feminism just as much as feminism within any other religion. Feminism is about the fight for equality for women with men, Muslims can support this as much as anyone else.

It was suffrage because the men had more voting rights or things they could do dealing with the government or rights unlike women they didnt have equal or nearly the same rights.

Feminism is more important in places like Africa, the Middle East and parts of Asia where women are regularly treated as second class citizens than in Western Europe or the United States where women have equal legal rights to men.

The message said "To put the first man on the moon by the end of the decade".

Feminism is concerned with equality between men and women - both equal rights and real equality in practice. This last includes a huge range of issues including things like equal opportunities and freedom from domestic violence, for example. There is no one theory; instead there are many different theories. It's a vast subject, and I hope the link is useful.

Mary Wollstonecraft is often considered the "first feminist" because of her 1792 book A Vindication of the Rights of Woman.

The dominant form of third wave feminism is called intersectional feminism and is based upon a form of cultural Marxism. Rather than being solely focussed on the idea of class struggle like Marxism, intersectional feminism refers to concepts such as gender struggle (where men are asserted to be a privileged oppressor class and women are asserted to be a marginalised oppressed class) or race struggle (where white people are asserted to be the privileged oppressors and non-white people are asserted to be the marginalised oppressed) with similar dynamics between heterosexual & non-heterosexual people and between cis gendered & transgendered people.

It did not, since there was no Feminist Movement in the 1940's. Only a Patriotic Movement. Actually, the ongoing feminist movement that began during WWI was greatly progressed during WWII. Most of the factories and labor jobs had to hire women (Rosie the Riveter) because the men were overseas. Daycare centers were created so that the women could work day-long jobs to support the war effort. While women already had suffrage by the start of WWII, they still had little respect from most of society, but their involvement in the factories to support the war brought them great recognition. However, once the war ended and the men returned home, the men felt threatened by their newly working, independent women, and forced them back into the stereotypical female role...hence the "Susie Homemaker" ideology of the 1950's.

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