USA HISTORY

PROTESTS ACTIVISM AND CIVIL DISOBEDIENCE 1954 1973

THE WOMENS MOVEMENT

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
Who started feminism?
A
Juliet Mitchell
B
Wilhelmina Drucker
C
Catherine Helen Spence
D
Alex Jones
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -In the Nethterlands, wilhelmina Drucker fought successfully for the vote ans equal rights for women through political and feminist organisation she founded in 1917-19 her goal of women’s suffrage was reached.

Detailed explanation-2: -Mary Wollstonecraft 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 argues for women’s education. Charles Fourier, a utopian socialist and French philosopher, is credited with having coined the word “féminisme” in 1837.

Detailed explanation-3: -The word feminism itself was first coined in 1837 by French philosopher, Charles Fourier (as féminisme). It originally referred to “feminine qualities or character, ” but that sense isn’t used any more.

Detailed explanation-4: -The First Wave of the Feminist Movement In 1848, a group of women, including Stanton, held the Seneca Falls Convention-the first meeting to discuss women’s rights. The attendees drafted a document outlining the initial movement’s ideology and mapped out a cohesive political strategy to win the right to vote.

Detailed explanation-5: -French feminism first arose in the revolutionary movement of 1789, as an intellectual protest against women’s exclusion from the principles of the revolution, pretended to be universal.

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