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Declaration of the Rights of Woman
The Declaration of the Rights of Woman was written on September 14th, 1791 by French activist, feminist, and playwright Olympe de Gouges in response to the 1789 Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen. This is significant because it brought attention to a set of what would later be known as feminist concerns that collectively reflected and influenced the aims of many French Revolutionaries and other contemporaries. -
Society of Revolutionary Republican Women
The Society of Revolutionary and Republican Women was a female-led revolutionary organization during the French Revolution. The Society officially began on May 10, 1793, and disbanded on September 16 of the same year.[1] During its existence, the Society managed to draw significant interest within the national political scene and advocation for gender equality in revolutionary politics. -
First-wave feminism
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 women's right to vote. -
Body Positivity Feminism
Fat feminism, or body-positivity, is a social movement that incorporates feminist themes of equality, social justice, and cultural analysis based on the weight of a woman. Fat feminists originated during third-wave feminism and is aligned with the fat acceptance movement. A significant portion of body positivity in the third-wave focused on embracing and reclaiming femininity, such as wearing makeup and high heels, even though the second-wave fought against these things. -
Black feminism
In the post slavery period, Black female intellectuals and activists, such as Sojourner Truth, Anna Julia Cooper, Ida B. Wells, Mary Church Terrell, and Frances Harper, set in motion the principles that would become the basis for Black feminism. -
Second-wave feminism
Second-wave feminism broadened the debate to including issues like sexuality, family, domesticity, the workplace, and reproductive rights. It was a movement that was focused on critiquing the patriarchal, or male-dominated institutions. Second-wave feminism also drew attention to the issues of domestic violence and marital rape, created rape-crisis centres and women's shelters, as well as brought about changes in custody laws and divorce law. -
The Feminine Mystique
This book, written by Betty Friedan, is widely credited with starting the beginning of second-wave feminism in the United States. Second-wave feminism was a period of feminist activity and thought that began in the early 1960s in the United States, and spread throughout the Western world and beyond. In the United States, the movement lasted through the early 1980s. -
Materialist feminism
Materialist feminism highlights capitalism and patriarchy as a central aspect in understanding women's oppression. It focuses on the material, or physical, aspects that define oppression. Materialist feminism's ideal vision is a society in which women are treated socially and economically the same as men. This centres social change rather than seeking transformation within the capitalist system. -
Radical lesbianism
Radical lesbianism is a lesbian movement that challenges the status quo of heterosexuality and mainstream feminism. It arose in part because mainstream feminism did not actively include or fight for lesbian rights. -
Third-wave feminism
Third-wave feminism is a repetition of the feminist movement that began in the early 1990s. Grounded in the civil-rights advances of the second wave, third-wave feminists embraced diversity and individualism in women, and sought to redefine what it meant to be a feminist. In the third wave saw the emergence of new feminist currents and theories, such as intersectionality, sex positivity, vegetarian ecofeminism, transfeminism, and postmodern feminism. -
Fourth-wave feminism
Fourth-wave feminism argues for equal pay for equal work and overcoming gender norms. Fourth-wave feminism became a movement for women to speak up and share their experiences online about sexual abuse, sexual harassment, sexual violence, the objectification of women, and sexism in the workplace. Social media offered women the opportunity to speak freely about sensitive topics on their own time and on their terms. Internet activism is a key feature of the fourth wave