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History of feminism

Overview

chronological narrative of the movements and ideologies aimed at equal rights for women

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1. In the present day, power holds a smoother language, and whomsoever it oppresses, always pretends to do so for their own good: accordingly, when anything is forbidden to women, it is thought necessary to say, and desirable to believe, that they are incapable of doing it, and that they depart from their real path of success and happiness when they aspire to it.

   John Stuart Mill, The Subjection of Women

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2. While she thus appropriates new rights, aspires to be "master," and inscribes "progress" of woman on her flags and banners, the very opposite realises itself with terrible obviousness: WOMAN RETROGRADES. Since the French Revolution the influence of woman in Europe has DECLINED in proportion as she has increased her rights and claims; and the "emancipation of woman," insofar as it is desired and demanded by women…

   Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil

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3. At this early stage we can already see that the emancipation of women and their equality with men are impossible and remain so, as long as women are excluded from social production and restricted to domestic labor. The emancipation of women becomes feasible only then when women are enabled to take part extensively in social production, and when domestic duties require their attention in a minor degree. This state of…

   Friedrich Engels, The origin of the family, private property, and the state

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Philosophers who discussed History of feminism

• Hannah Arendt

Related ideas

• Revolutions of 1848
• Feminist theory
• Globe Pequot Publishing Group
• Charlotte Perkins Gilman
• Georg Simmel
• Turkey
• Modernization theory
• Feminism
• French Revolution
• Germany
• The Feminine Mystique
• Harvard University Press
• Gender equality
• George Eliot
• Human rights
• Iceland
• India
• Women's rights
• Ireland
• Queer theory
• Waldensians
• Prostitution
• Jane Addams
• John Stuart Mill

Opposing perspectives

• World War I

Place in the tradition

Part of Liberalism.

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