What year did feminism start?

Answer 1

This question is badly conceived. It assumes that feminism is something which can be encapsulated into one particular movement or ideology. There are many kinds of feminism, each quite different from the other. It would be more productive to ask when a particular kind of feminism began. Agreed. There was no proclamation saying anything like, 'We, the undersigned, hereby launch a campaign for the equality of men and women [date]'. There were several different campaigns on specific issues - such as the provision of serious, worthwhile education, the vote, property rights and so on. In general terms, these various campaigns started in the nineteenth century (1800s) in both Europe and America.

Answer 2

Well basically, the 18th Century age of Enlightenment and reason gave rise to Liberal Humanistic Ideas. Liberals are of the opinion that the right must be given priority over the 'good'.... Liberalism advocates egalitarianism. In other words, our whole system of individual rights is justified because these might constitute a framework within which we can all chose our separate good provided we don't deprive others of theirs. Liberal Feminist movement which draws on the theory of Liberal Humanist Thoght first began in the last decade of the 18th century, being one of the earliest schools of feminism. It was Mary Wollstonecraft who wrote the first feminist document called A Vindication of the Rights of Women.

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Answer 3

First, it should be noted that the word "feminism" did not begin to mean "a movement about equality for women" until the 1890s. What came to be called feminism did not start in just one place. There were individual women (and some forward-looking men) in a number of countries who tried to improve the way women were treated. One good example was New Zealand: it was one of the first countries in the world to give women the right to vote (in 1893), and one of the few countries to begin giving married women property rights under the law, as early as the 1860s (most countries regarded the married woman herself as property-- she belonged to her husband, who could treat her as he wished).

Another Country where there were advocates for equality for women was the United States. The beginnings of a movement for equal rights for women began in 1848 with a convention at Seneca Falls NY, which was attended by about 100 women (and a few men). The attendees also wanted married women to have rights (if a married woman had any money, for example, under the law, it belonged to her husband and she had no say in how it was spent); some of the women at the convention, including Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Lucretia Mott, went on to change a number of state laws-- in New York, the Married Women's Property Act was passed in 1848. Also important were a small but influential group of women lawyers who began practicing in the late 1800s. But getting the federal government to move forward on equal rights for women took a lot longer however-- women in the USA did not achieve full voting rights until 1920, and other inequalities took even more time to remedy.

Answer 4

There is no liberal feminism or conservative feminism. There is simply feminism, and that exists to have both genders treated equally.

Answer 5

It is generally agreed that liberalism started to form in the 1700's and was eclipsed by Socialism in the early 1900's.

Answer 6

Before Eve there was a woman named Lilith who left Adam because she did not want to submit to him, many people consider her the first feminist.

Answer 7

Feminism today has took the meaning o feminism and killed it with these redicules claims