18 the concept of “women” and provide specific analyses and critique of gender
inequality and most feminist social movement promote women’s right interest and issues, some of subtypes of feminist ideology have developed over the years, early
feminist movement are also often called the first wave feminist, and feminist after 1960 called them selves as second feminist, and younger feminist have identified them
selves as third wave while second feminist still active
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1. First Wave Feminism.
First wave feminism refers to a period of feminist activity during 19
th
century and early 20
th
in the United Kingdom and the United States. It focused on gaining the right of women’s suffrage. The term “first wave” was coined retrospectively after the
second wave feminism began to be used to describe a newer feminist movement focused on fighting social and cultural inequalities as further political inequalities.
In Britain the suffragettes campaigned for the women’s vote, eventually granted to some women in the 1918 and to all in 1928 as much because of the part played by
British wove during the first world war, in the united states leaders of the movement Elizabeth caddy Stanton and Suzan b. Anthony, who each campaign for the abolition of
the slavery prior to championing women’s right to vote. Other important feminist include Lucy Stone, Olympia Brown, and Hale Pitts. American first wave feminism
involved a wide range of women, others resembling the diversity and radicalism of much of second feminism, such as Mantilda Jostlyin Gage, Stanton and Anthony. In
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19 the United States first wave feminism is considered to have ended with the passage of
the 19
th
amendment to the United States constitution in 1919, granting women’s to right to vote
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2. Second Wave Feminism
Second wave feminism refers to period of feminist activity beginning in the early 1960s and through the late 1980s. Second wave feminism has existed since then,
and continues to exist with what some people call third wave feminism, the second wave feminism saw that the cultural and political inequalities as inextricably linked,
the movement women to understand aspects of their own personals lives as deeply polarized, and reflective of a sexist structure of power. The first wave feminism
focused upon absolute right such s suffrage, second wave feminism was more largely concerned with other issues of equality, such as the end of discrimination
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3. Third Wave Feminism
