8 sentences with “feminist”

However, it was not until the late 19th century that a robust feminist movement emerged to defend women's rights.

Proust and Woolf also wrote works focusing on the inner life rather than the outer event, and Woolf was also a seminal feminist writer.

For example, Flora Tristan was a French socialist and feminist who emerged from Fourierism to do important early work on linking the idea of social progress with female equality.

The stifling restrictions imposed on women and their infantilisation by men were the main factors in the rise of the feminist movement in the second half of the century, described below.

Thus, too often working-class men turned to alcohol as a solace; it is no coincidence that the first-wave feminist movement was closely linked to the temperance movement that sought the legal prohibition of alcohol.

In many ways, the City of Ladies was the first truly feminist work in European history, and it is striking that it was supported and listened to by elite men because of its obvious intellectual gifts despite its own deep-rooted sexism.

The great works of early feminism that emerged in the late Enlightenment, such as English writer Mary Wollstonecraft's Vindication of the Rights of Woman in 1791, were viciously attacked and then largely ignored until the modern feminist movement forced the issue most of a century later.

Such claims go back centuries; perhaps the first clear feminist thinker in Western society was the Renaissance courtesan Christine de Pizan, and later feminists such as Mary Wollstonecraft explicitly linked the feminist claim to equality with the revolutionary promise of the American and French Revolutions of the late 18th century.