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Feminism involves various movements,
theories and
philosophies which are concerned with the issue of
gender inequality, race inequality and humanitarian rights, that advocate eliminating the oppression of women, and that campaign for
women's rights and interests. The history of feminism can be divided into three waves. The first wave was in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, the second was in the 1960s and 1970s and the third extends from the 1990s to the present.
Feminist theory emerged from these feminist movements. It manifests through a variety of disciplines such as
feminist geography,
feminist history and
feminist literary criticism.
Feminism has altered predominant perspectives in a wide range of areas within Western society, ranging from culture to law. Feminist activists have campaigned for women's legal rights (rights of contract, property rights, voting rights); for rights to bodily integrity and autonomy, for abortion rights, and for reproductive rights (including access to contraception and quality prenatal care); for protection from domestic violence, sexual harassment and rape; for workplace rights, including maternity leave and equal pay; and against other forms of discrimination.
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Maria: or, The Wrongs of Woman is
Mary Wollstonecraft's unfinished
novelistic sequel to her revolutionary political treatise
A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (1792).
The Wrongs of Woman was published posthumously in
1798 by her husband,
William Godwin, and is often considered her most radical
feminist work. Wollstonecraft's
philosophical and
gothic novel revolves around the story of a woman imprisoned in an insane asylum by her husband. It focuses on the societal rather than the individual "wrongs of woman" and criticizes what Wollstonecraft viewed as the
patriarchal institution of marriage in eighteenth-century Britain and the legal system that protected it. However, the heroine's inability to relinquish her romantic fantasies also indicts women for wallowing in a false and damaging
sentimentalism. The novel pioneered the celebration of female sexuality and cross-class identification between women. Such themes, coupled with the publication of Godwin's scandalous
Memoirs of Wollstonecraft's life, made the novel unpopular at the time it was published. Twentieth-century
feminist critics embraced the work, integrating it into the history of the novel and feminist discourse. It is most often viewed as a fictionalized popularization of the
Rights of Woman, as an extension of Wollstonecraft's feminist arguments in
Rights of Woman, and as an autobiography.
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World War I recruitment poster for the newly formed Australian Red Cross asking nurses to participate in the war effort. Artwork by David Henry Souter.
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Margaret Fuller was a
journalist,
critic and
women's rights activist associated with the American
transcendental movement. She was the first full-time female book reviewer in journalism. Her book
Woman in the Nineteenth Century is considered the first major
feminist work in the United States. Born Sarah Margaret Fuller in an area of
Cambridge, Massachusetts, she was given a substantial early education by her father,
Timothy Fuller. She later had more formal schooling and became a teacher before, in 1839, she began overseeing what she called "conversations": discussions among women meant to compensate for their lack of access to higher education. She became the first editor of the transcendental publication
The Dial in 1840 before joining the staff of the
New York Tribune under
Horace Greeley in 1844. By the time she was in her 30s, Fuller had earned a reputation as the best-read person in
New England, male or female, and became the first woman allowed to use the library at
Harvard College. Her seminal work,
Woman in the Nineteenth Century, was published in 1845. A year later, she was sent to Europe for the
Tribune as its first female correspondent. Fuller was an advocate of women's rights and, in particular, women's education and the right to employment. She also encouraged many other reforms in society, including
prison reform and the emancipation of slaves in the United States. Many other advocates for women's rights and feminism, including
Susan B. Anthony, cite Fuller as a source of inspiration. Shortly after Fuller's death her importance faded; the editors who prepared her letters to be published, believing her fame would be short-lived, were not concerned about accuracy and censored or altered much of her words before publication.
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I myself have never been able to find out precisely what feminism is: I only know that people call me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormate or a prostitute.
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