POLI 1100 Chapter Notes - Chapter 4: Socialist Feminism, Liberal Feminism, Radical Feminism
30 Jul 2016
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Feminism is often thought of in terms of achieving equality for women. A perspective that views society as patriarchal and seeks to achieve full independence and equality for women. The declaration of the rights of man 1789, , a product of the french revolu- tion of 1789, inspired one of the first statements of feminist ideas. In a vindication of the rights of woman (1792), mary wollstonecraft rejected the common notion that women"s natural role was to please men and to bear and raise children. A system in which power is in the hands of men and many aspects of women"s lives are controlled by men. In the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, women played a major role in various political activities including anti-slavery campaigns, the temper- ance movement, and the struggle for the right to vote. In the 1960s, a variety of protest movements (including civil rights, black.
