FEMINISM

Feminism is the conviction of protecting the social, political and various other rights of women equal to those of men. The antiquity of feminism emerged from the feminist movement which started in the late 19th century and was a series of campaigns for the liberation of women and protecting their rights. The word feminism initially occurred in France in around 1880s, Great Britain in the 1890s, and the United States in the 1910 (Tandon 1). It was the London Daily News that coined the term, and by importing it from France, automatically branded it as dangerous. Illustrating feminism can be challenging, but pragmatically a broad understanding of feminism includes womens voice, rights of women, injustice to women, womens issues (domestic violence and sexual harassment) etc. Feminist as a label for women involves in discussing or advancing womens issues, although this defies a standardized definition as much as any other variety of feminists. Feminism appeared in three waves, all dealing with assorted facets of the same matter; the first wave was the feminist movement in the 19th to early 20th century, which dealt with the suffrage movement, the second wave dealt with the inequality of laws. The third movement (1990s) of feminism arose from the perceived decline of the second wave (Tandon 1). Womens voices are sometimes difficult to espy in the ancient world, but classical Greek philosophers such as Aristotle and Plato occasionally claimed to be feminists (a role that is