First wave feminism - Study guides, Class notes & Summaries

Waves of Feminism - - First Wave Feminism: Emerged in the mid 19th century and concentrated on the campaign for the vote and equal legal rights. In the UK it ended with the extension of the vote to women in 1918 and full suffrage in 1928. - Second Wave Feminism: Held to have started in the 1960s. It focused on the personal, psychological and social aspects of women's oppression ad aimed for liberation rather than reform. - Third Wave Feminism: Has moved feminism away from the aims of educa...

What was the main focus of first-wave feminism? -Suffrage Which phrase is most associated with second-wave feminism -'The personal is political' When did third-wave feminism emerge, recognising the concerns of women from a wider range of cultures? -1990s What was the main focus of fourth-wave feminism? -(Social) Media images of women With which wave do we associate the emergence of radical feminism? -Second- wave, 1960s What is meant by 'gender' in the language of feminism? -Innate cha...

Race -A social construction - Imposing social meanings onto real and/or imagined physiological characteristic (superiority/inferiority) - A way to legitimize the colonial subjugation/subordination of European colonized and continue to deny them access to resources - Racism in engrained in nation building - Seen as static/fixed, inherent and unchangeable - Socially grounded in politics, capitalism, and unequal social relations among different groups of people - Maintained by dominant elit...

Race -A social construction - Imposing social meanings onto real and/or imagined physiological characteristic (superiority/inferiority) - A way to legitimize the colonial subjugation/subordination of European colonized and continue to deny them access to resources - Racism in engrained in nation building - Seen as static/fixed, inherent and unchangeable - Socially grounded in politics, capitalism, and unequal social relations among different groups of people - Maintained by dominant elit...

First Wave - Developed in the mid nineteenth century and was based on political and legal parity with men. Franchise - Also known as the right to vote Mary Wollstonecraft - Wrote the seminal first wave feminist piece of writing 'A vindication of the Rights of Woman' Seneca Falls Convention - Held in 1848 and marked the beginning of the women's rights movement in the US Society for Women's Suffrage - Founded in 1867 in London and began the organized movement of women's rights for the...

SECTION 1: Overview of feminism - Name the strands Briefly describe each State the approximate wave - - LIBERAL feminism - supporting reform (1st wave). - RADICAL feminism - supporting revolution (2nd and 3rd wave). - SOCIALIST feminism - the most extreme and are Marxists (2nd wave) - POSTMODERN feminism (3rd wave). The main strands are liberal and radical. Socialist and postmodern are also strands to use where you can. So, mainly contrast liberal and radical. Include socialist and p...

first wave -(1830's - early1900's) -Women's right to vote, as well as fight for equal contract and property rights -Seneca Falls -Susan B Anthony second wave -(1960's-1980's) - Focused on the workplace, sexuality, family and reproductive rights/reproductive justice. - Betty Friedan - Margaret Sanger third wave -refers to several diverse strains of feminist activity and study, whose exact boundaries in the history of feminism are a subject of debate, but are generally marked as begi...

Waves of Feminism - - First Wave Feminism: Emerged in the mid 19th century and concentrated on the campaign for the vote and equal legal rights. In the UK it ended with the extension of the vote to women in 1918 and full suffrage in 1928. - Second Wave Feminism: Held to have started in the 1960s. It focused on the personal, psychological and social aspects of women's oppression ad aimed for liberation rather than reform. - Third Wave Feminism: Has moved feminism away from the aims of educa...

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What is feminist theory? - a wide ranging system of ideas about social life and human experiences developed from a woman centered perspective. [woman centered because it examines the situations and experiences of women, tried to describe the social world from the standpoint of women] First wave feminism - comte coined the term sociology, marx weber and durkheim dominated sociology at this time but there were women doing feminist work at this time also, trying to establish a feminist perspec...