Figuring out Feminism and its different features
- Author Amit Dhawan
- DOI
- Country : India
- Subject : English
Keywords : feminism, feminine, female, emancipation, harassment
Abstract
The present paper Understanding Feminism and its different waves is an attempt to understand the actual concept of feminism which is one of the most important social movements of the past two centuries and certainly the social movement which has brought about the most enduring and progressive transformation of human society on a global scale. It is customary to divide the history of feminism into a First, Second, and Third Wave, with each period signalling a different era in the struggle to attain equality between the sexes. Today feminism means many different things to different people, but at its core, if one goes back to its origins in the late 18th century, it is primarily a social movement for the emancipation of women. That movement was slow to start, and it wasn’t until the late 1880s that the term ‘feminism’ actually appeared. Before then, the more usual term was ‘women’s rights’. The first advocates for women’s rights were for the most part lonely voices pleading against obvious and manifest iniquities in society’s treatment of women.
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