feminism
Art History
Sociology
Examples of feminism in the following topics:
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The Feminist Perspective
- Feminism is a broad term that is the result of several historical social movements attempting to gain equal economic, political, and social rights for women.
- First-wave feminism focused mainly on legal equality, such as voting, education, employment, marriage laws, and the plight of intelligent, white, middle-class women.
- Second-wave feminism went a step further by seeking equality in family, employment, reproductive rights, and sexuality.
- Although there was great improvements with perceptions and representations of women that extended globally, the movement was not unified and several different forms of feminism began to emerge: black feminism, lesbian feminism, liberal feminism, and social feminism.
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Second-Wave Feminism
- Second-wave Feminism is a period of feminist activity that manifested in the United States during the early 1960s, lasting through the 60s, 70s, and 80s.
- Whereas first-wave feminism focused mainly on overturning legal obstacles to gender equality (i.e. voting rights, property rights), second-wave feminism broadened the debate to a wide range of issues: sexuality, family, the workplace, reproductive rights, de facto inequalities, and official legal inequalities.
- Many feminists view the second-wave feminist era as ending with the intra-feminism disputes of the Feminist Sex Wars , which ushered in the era of third-wave feminism.
- This book is widely credited with having begun second-wave feminism.
- Second-wave feminism was largely successful, with the failure of the ratification of the ERA the only major legislative defeat .
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Gender and Social Movements
- Second-wave feminism refers to a period of feminist activity beginning in the early 1960s and through the late 1980s.
- Second Wave Feminism has existed continuously since then, and continues to coexist with what some people call Third Wave Feminism.
- Second wave feminism saw cultural and political inequalities as inextricably linked.
- Finally, the third-wave of feminism began in the early 1990s.
- There is and must be a diversity of feminisms, responsive to the different needs and concerns of women, and defined by them for themselves.
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The Feminist Perspective
- At the turn of the century, the first wave of feminism focused on official, political inequalities and fought for women's suffrage.
- In the 1960s, second wave feminism, also known as the women's liberation movement, turned its attention to a broader range of inequalities, including those in the workplace, the family, and reproductive rights.
- Currently, a third wave of feminism is criticizing the fact that the first two waves of feminism were dominated by white women from advanced capitalist societies.
- The relationship between feminism and race was largely overlooked until the second wave of feminists produced literature on the topic of black feminism.
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The Feminization of Poverty
- The feminization of poverty refers to the fact that women represent a disproportionate share of the world's poor.
- The feminization of poverty describes a phenomenon in which women represent a disproportionate percentage of the world's poor.
- Increasing health services to women could, therefore, mitigate the feminization of poverty.
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The Women's Rights Movement
- Second-wave feminism is a period of feminist activity.
- In the United States, second-wave feminism, initially called the Women's Liberation Movement , began during the early 1960s and lasted through the late 1990s.
- Whereas first-wave feminism focused mainly on suffrage and overturning legal obstacles to gender equality (i.e. voting rights, property rights), second-wave feminism broadened the debate to a wide range of issues: sexuality, family, the workplace, reproductive rights, de facto inequalities, and official legal inequalities.
- This book is widely credited with having begun second-wave feminism.
- Compare and contrast the first and second waves of feminism in the United States
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The Influence of Feminism
- Feminism in art has always sought to change the reception of contemporary art and bring visibility to women within art history and practice.
- Feminism has always existed and, generally speaking, prioritizes the creation of an opposition to this system.
- Corresponding with general developments within feminism, the so-called "second wave" of the movement gained some prominence in the 1960s and flourished throughout the 1970s.
- During the heyday of second wave feminism, women artists in New York began to come together for meetings and exhibitions.
- Postmodern feminism is an approach to feminist theory that incorporates postmodern and post-structuralist theory, and thus sees itself as moving beyond the modernist polarities of liberal feminism and radical feminism towards a more intersectional concept of our reality.
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Gender
- Corresponding with general developments within feminism, and often including such self-organizing tactics as consciousness-raising groups, the movement began in the 1960s and flourished throughout the 1970s as an outgrowth of the so-called "second wave" of feminism.
- Postmodern feminism is an approach to feminist theory that incorporates postmodern and post-structuralist theory, and thus sees itself as moving beyond the modernist polarities of liberal feminism and radical feminism.
- Postmodern feminism's major departure from other branches of feminism is perhaps the argument that gender is socially constructed through language; meaning that it has no inherent biological reality, but is a classification system that's been constructed or invented for societal purposes.
- From the 1960s onward, feminism led to a significant increase in interest and scholarship involving women artists .
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The Feminist Movement
- The third wave, starting in the 1990s, rose in response to the perceived failures of the second wave feminism.
- Marxist feminism argues that capitalism is the root cause of women's oppression, and that discrimination against women in domestic life and employment is an effect of capitalist ideologies.
- Socialist feminism distinguishes itself from Marxist feminism by arguing that women's liberation can only be achieved by working to end both the economic and cultural sources of women's oppression.
- The first wave of women's feminism focused on suffrage, while subsequent feminist efforts have expanded to focus on equal pay, reproductive rights, sexual harassment, and others.
- Compare and contrast the three waves of feminism in the United States and their historical achievements
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Organizing and Outlining the Speech
- Here is a sample outline about issues of feminism in William Shakespeare's Hamlet:
- How uncovering ideas of feminism in "Hamlet" has led me to better understand what Shakespeare thought of the role women played in society