GROUP 5:

FEMINIS
VOCABULARY WORDS:
1. Feminist - Someone who supports equal rights for
women

2. Equality - State of being equal especially in

status,rights and opportunities

3. Sexist - A person characterized by showing prejudice,

stereotyping or discrimination on the basis of
sex

4. Suffrage - Right to vote

5. Exploitation
- Action or fact of treating someone
unfairly in order to benefit from their
work

6. Oppression
- Prolonged cruel or unjust
treatment or control
FEMINISM
• - an intellectual
commitment and a
social movement
that seeks equal
rights for Women.
Mary Wolfstonecraft (1759-1797)
- she is seen by many as
a founder of Feminism
due to her 1792 book
titled “ A Vindication of
the Rights of Woman” in
which she argued for
women’s education
History of Feminism
In late 14th- and early 15th-century
France, the first feminist philosopher,
Christine de Pisan, challenged
prevailing attitudes toward women
with a bold call for female education.
Her mantle was taken up later in the century
by Laura Cereta, a 15th-century Venetian
woman who published Epistolae familiares
(1488; “Personal Letters”; Eng. trans. Collected
Letters of a Renaissance Feminist), a volume
of letters dealing with a panoply of women’s
complaints, from denial of education and
marital oppression to the frivolity of women’s
attire.
FOUR WAVES OF FEMINISM
1. First Wave: 1848-1920’s
The first organized movement began in
July 1848, at the Convection organized
by Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Lucretia
Mott at Senaca Falls, New York. It aimed
at gaining rights for women, women’s
equality with men, and passed a dozen
resolutions calling for various specific
rights, including the right to vote.
2. Second Wave: 1963-1980’s
- Betty Friedan “The Feminine
Mystique” (1963)
-Second-wave feminist called
for a re evaluation of
traditional gender rules in
society and an end to sexist
discrimination.
3. Third Wave: 1990’s-
- Focused on tackling problems that
still exists, including sexual
harassment in the workplace and a
shortage of women in positions of
power. Embracing the spirit of rebellion
instead of reform, Third Wave feminists
encouraged women to express their
sexuality and individuality.
4. Fourth Wave: Present Day
- 4th Wave feminists are turning their
attention to the systems that allows
sexual misconduct to occur, they
continue to grapple with the concept
of intersectionality, and how the
movement can be inclusive and
representative regardless of race,
sexuality, class and gender.
Feminist Theory/Ideologies
“Big Three” Schools of Feminism thought

1. Liberal Feminism
- Seeks equality of men and women
through political and legal reform
within a liberal democratic
framework, focused especially on
women’s suffrage and access to
education.
2. Radical Feminism
-Calls for a radical
reordering of society to
eliminate male
supremacy in all social
and economic contexts
3. Socialist/Marxist Feminism
- Both are working on
stopping exploitation and
oppression of women but
Socialist is moving as a
larger group than
Marxist.
Feminism benefits everyone
Allows people to live free and
empowered lives without being tied down
to “traditional” restrictions

Importance of Studying Feminism

It highlights the social issues that are
often overlooked or misidentified by
alredy present social theories