USA HISTORY

PROTESTS ACTIVISM AND CIVIL DISOBEDIENCE 1954 1973

THE WOMENS MOVEMENT

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
When did feminism take off?
A
1980s
B
1950s
C
1890s
D
1936
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -1980s. Difference feminism was developed by feminists in the 1980s, in part as a reaction to popular liberal feminism (also known as “equality feminism"), which emphasizes the similarities between women and men in order to argue for equal treatment for women.

Detailed explanation-2: -Second-wave feminism’ is a term that describes the feminist movement that began in the early 1960’s and developed more extensively into the 1980’s. This wave of feminism focused on equality rights and strove to challenge the social and gender norms that put women in weaker societal roles compared to men.

Detailed explanation-3: -The women’s liberation movement (WLM) was a political alignment of women and feminist intellectualism that emerged in the late 1960s and continued into the 1980s primarily in the industrialized nations of the Western world, which effected great change (political, intellectual, cultural) throughout the world.

Detailed explanation-4: -The 1980s and 1990s drew a different perspective in the feminist movement and was termed Grrl Feminism or Riot Grrl Feminism. The ideas of this era took root with the popularization of the Riot grrrl feminist punk subculture in Olympia, Washington, in the early 1990s.

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