First-wave feminism was a period of feminist activity and thought that occurred during the 19th and early 20th century throughout the Western world. It focused on legal issues, primarily on securing w
A 1932 Soviet poster for International Women's Day: "Day of the uprising of female workers against kitchen slavery".
Louise Weiss along with other Parisian suffragettes in 1935. The newspaper headline reads, in translation, "THE FRENCH WOMAN MUST VOTE".
The Kate Sheppard National Memorial in Christchurch, New Zealand. The figures shown from left to right are Meri Mangakāhia, Amey Daldy, Kate Sheppard, Ada Wells, Harriet Morison and Helen Nicol (suffragist).
Charlotte Perkins Gilman (pictured) wrote these articles about feminism for the Atlanta Constitution, published on December 10, 1916.
Second-wave feminism was a period of feminist activity that began in the early 1960s and lasted roughly two decades, ending with the feminist sex wars in the early 1980s and being replaced by third-wa
First-wave feminism
…legal perspective. The term first-wave feminism itself was coined by journalist Martha Lear in a New York Times Magazine article in March 1968, "The Second Feminist Wave: What do these women want?" First-wave feminism is characterized as focusing on the fight for women's political power, as opposed to de facto unofficial…
Eleanor Roosevelt and John F. Kennedy NARA cropped
American Association of University Women members with President John F. Kennedy as he signs the Equal Pay Act into law in 1963
Betty Friedan published The Feminine Mystique in 1963