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By 1913, Feminism (originally capitalized) was a household term in the United States. [125] Major issues in the 1910s and 1920s included suffrage, women's partisan activism, economics and employment, sexualities and families, war and peace, and a Constitutional amendment for equality.
A Vindication of the Rights of Woman: with Strictures on Political and Moral Subjects (1792), written by British philosopher and women's rights advocate Mary Wollstonecraft (1759–1797), is one of the earliest works of feminist philosophy. In it, Wollstonecraft responds to those educational and political theorists of the eighteenth century who ...
Abigail Adams wrote about the troubles and concerns she had as an 18th-century woman. [30] She was an advocate of married women's property rights and more opportunities for women, particularly in the field of education. Women, she believed, should not submit to laws not made in their interest, nor should they be content with the simple role of ...
Self-determination of people. Sexuality. Speech. Water and sanitation. v. t. e. Women's rights are the rights and entitlements claimed for women and girls worldwide. They formed the basis for the women's rights movement in the 19th century and the feminist movements during the 20th and 21st centuries.
The Woman's Labour, Mary Collier (1739) [ 18 ] Letters from a Peruvian Woman, Françoise de Graffigny (1747) The Female Quixote, Charlotte Lennox (1756) An Essay on Woman in Three Epistles, Mary Leapor (1763) Je ne sçai quoi: or, A collection of letters, odes, &c., Never before published.
The legal rights of women refers to the social and human rights of women. One of the first women's rights declarations was the Declaration of Sentiments. [1] The dependent position of women in early law is proved by the evidence of most ancient systems. Part of a series on.
The Enlightenment came to advance ideals of liberty, progress, and tolerance. For those women who were able to discuss and advance new ideals, discourse on religion, political and social equality, and sexuality became prominent topics in the salons, debating societies, and in print. While women in England and France gained arguably more freedom ...
Mary Astell. Mary Astell (12 November 1666 – 11 May 1731) was an English protofeminist writer, philosopher, and rhetorician who advocated for equal educational opportunities for women. Astell is primarily remembered as one of England's inaugural advocates for women's rights and some commentators consider her to have been "the first English ...