Legal issues, primarily on gaining women's suffrage .
Abstract. This research focuses on feminism's First, Second and Third Waves in order to provide a summative analysis of feminism's history to the present day. The first wave of the 1920 s is explored within its goal of achieving woman s suffrage. The term, First Wave feminism, has come to describe the Women s Rights Movement from the early-to-mid 19th century, to the year 1921, and perhaps a few straggling years after that. The feminist movement (also known as the Women's Movement, Women's Liberation, or Women's Lib) refers to a series of campaigns for reforms on issues such as reproductive rights, domestic violence, maternity leave, equal pay, women's suffrage, sexual harassment and sexual violence. The term first-wave was coined retrospectively after the term second-wave feminism began to be used to describe a newer feminist movement that focused as much on fighting social and cultural inequalities as further political inequalities. 1. The term first wave feminism generally refers to the women s suffrage movement, from the late 18 century to the early 20, when women called for the right to vote, to serve on juries, to own and inherit property, etc. The term second wave feminism generally refers to the women s movement sparked in the early 1960 s. Some have argued that we should now refer to third and even fourth waves, and/or postfeminism, but reference to the first two is sufficient for the purposes of this paper. 2. Some might prefer to define feminism in terms of a normative claim alone: feminists are those who believe that women are entitled to equal rights, or equal respect, or…(fill in the blank with one's preferred account of injustice), and one is not required to believe that women are currently being treated unjustly. However, there are many different kinds of feminism. Feminists disagree about what sexism consists in, and what exactly ought to be done about it; they disagree about what it means to be a woman or a man and what social and political implications gender has or should have. Feminists and scholars have divided the movement's history into three waves. The first wave refers mainly to women's suffrage movements of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries (mainly concerned with women's right to vote). The term first wave was coined retrospectively after the term second-wave feminism began to be used to describe a newer feminist movement that focused as much on fighting social and cultural inequalities as political inequalities. The first wave refers to the feminist movement of the 19th through early 20th centuries, which focused mainly on women's suffrage. Writers such as Virginia Woolf are associated with the ideas of the first wave of feminism. The term first-wave was coined retrospectively after the term second-wave feminism began to be used to describe a newer feminist movement that focused as much on fighting social and cultural inequalities as further political inequalities. First-wave feminism refers to a period of feminist activity during the 19th and early 20th century throughout the world, particularly in the United Kingdom, Canada, the Netherlands and the United States. It focused on legal issues, primarily on gaining women's suffrage (the right to vote). The term first-wave was coined in March 1968 by Marsha Lear writing in The New York Times Magazine, who at the same time also used the term  second-wave feminism . For example, some writers use the term ‘feminism’ to refer to a historically specific political movement in the US and Europe; other writers use it to refer to the belief that there are injustices against women, though there is no consensus on the exact list of these injustices. However, there are many different kinds of feminism. Feminists disagree about what sexism consists in, and what exactly ought to be done about it; they disagree about what it means to be a woman or a man and what social and political implications gender has or should have. Feminism is both an intellectual commitment and a political movement that seeks justice for women and the end of sexism in all forms. However, there are many different kinds of feminism. Feminists disagree about what sexism consists in, and what exactly ought to be done about it; they disagree about what it means to be a woman or a man and what social and political implications gender has or should have. The first wave of Australian feminism, which dates back to the late 19th century, was chiefly concerned with suffrage (women's right to vote) and consequently with women's access to parliaments and other political activities. It focused on legal issues, primarily on gaining women's suffrage (the right to vote). The term first-wave was coined in March 1968 by Marsha Lear writing in The New York Times Magazine, who at the same time also used the term  second-wave feminism .
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