7 sentences with 'feminists'
Example sentences and phrases with the word feminists and other words derived from it.
• « 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. »
• « Thus, early feminists argued that their right to vote was simply the logical and obvious conclusion of the political evolution of their century. »
• « In response, first-wave feminists argued that women were only "inferior" because of their inferior education. If they were educated to the same level and standards as men, they could exercise their reason on the same level too, and therefore deserved to be treated as equals by the law. »
• « For second-wave feminists, the movement was not simply about women having access to the same forms of employment and the same wages as men (although these were obviously very important goals), but about attacking the sexual objectification and sexual double standards to which women were subjected. »
• « Second-wave feminists took the demand for liberation a step further and advocated reliable, legal contraception and the legalisation of abortion. Both were illegal in most of the Western world until the 1950s, and even in countries such as Britain and the Netherlands, where contraception was legally available, it was difficult to obtain and associated with promiscuity. »
• « Thanks to significant advances in related medical fields - the contraceptive pill was approved for use as a contraceptive in the United States in 1960, for example - second-wave feminists successfully fought for the legalisation of contraception and abortion in the late 1970s, although abortion rights remain a highly controversial political issue in countries such as the United States. »