The Feminist Movement

What is Feminism?

 Feminism is the social movement that

advocates equality of rights and statuses
between men and women in all fields.
 Feminism - History
 Europe – French Revolution (1789) Active participation of women

"Liberty, Equality, Fraternity“

(Marianne - The Combative)

 The Waves of Feminism
The First Wave – Female Vote
 When?
Century XIX – XX
 Where?
United Kingdom & United States
 Objective
1. Female Vote ( The Suffragettes)
2. Political Participation
3. Public Life
The Waves of Feminism

The Second Wave – The Staff is Political!

 When?
1950s and stretches into the mid-1990s
 Where?
Started in the United States, afterwards spread throughout the world
 Objective
1. Fight for reproductive rights.
2. Discussions about sexuality

“Sisterhood is Powerful”
The Waves of Feminism
The Third Wave – Punk, Intersectionality and
Postmodernity
 When?
1990s, with the emergence of female punk movements.
 Objective
1. Search for the destruction of categorical thoughts and the criticism of
the previous narratives of liberation and victimization.
2. "Freedom of choice of women”.
3. Transversalism.
Feminism - Women who marked the history

Amelia Earhart

Amelia was the first woman to fly solo

over the Atlantic Ocean in 1928.
Feminism - Women who marked the history

International Women's Day

129 female workers in a US textile

industry are murdered by their bosses.
They had struck a strike for better wages
and reduced the working day, which was
14 hours.
Feminism - Women who marked the history

Kathrine Switzer

She was the first woman to attend

the famed Boston Marathon in
1967.