8 sentences with 'feminism'

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« Historians refer to late 19th and early 20th century feminism as "first wave" feminism (there have been three "waves" so far). »
« Even as socialist parties were growing in size and strength, another political and cultural conflict was raging: the emergence of feminism. »
« A particularly important movement that emerged from the protest culture of the late 1960s was second-wave feminism (the first being that of the late 19th and early 20th century). »
« Likewise, the youth movement's focus on social justice would gain momentum in the following decades, leading to the flourishing of second-wave feminism, anti-racist movements and a broad (though far from universal) acceptance of multiculturalism and the mixing of cultures. »
« 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. »
« In England, the writer Mary Wollstonecraft wrote one of the founding texts of modern feminism, Vindication of the Rights of Woman, in 1792, which unequivocally claimed: women's liberation would play a fundamental role in disintegrating the unjustified social and political hierarchy for all. »
« The ideological divisions between these two main categories of parties had to do with social and cultural issues, support for or opposition to women's issues and feminism, the stance towards decolonisation, the proper content of state universities, etc., rather than the desirability of the welfare state. »
« A useful definition of feminism by historians Bonnie Anderson and Judith Zinsser in A History of Their Own states that feminism is the claim that women are fully human, not secondary or inferior to men, that women have been oppressed throughout history and that women must recognise their solidarity with other women in order to end that oppression and create a more just and equitable society. »

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