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Mary Wollstonecraft
Mary Wollstonecraft did tha Vindication of the rights of women. She wrote it in Britain but it was the begining of the feminist philosophy even in USA. -
Seneca Falls convention
M. Wollstonecraft instored the first-wave of feminist philosophy but the first movement began with the Seneca Falls Convention on july 1848. Then Elizabeth Cady Standon asserded fundamenta rights of women. -
Gobal abolition
One of the most important events of the 19th century is the gobal abolition of S.Falls to protest against racism and sexism. Also Sojourney Truth made a famous speech in this year -
The hierarchy of oppression
E. Cady Stanton complained about the prospect of black vonting rights that passed in 1865. In 1896, a group of black women, was created out of a merger of smaller organizations. Then the national feminist movement became identified primarily and enduringly as white and upper class. -
A sort of democracy in America
The governement ratified the 19th amendment. Before 1920 we couldn’t say that the USA were democracy because only 40% of the white men were allowed to elect representatives. -
Rosie the riveter
The 19th Amendment was born after World War I, and the women's liberation movement began only after World War II. Then 6 millons women recruited to work in military factory. These women are represented by the poster « Rosie the Riverter ». After the world war II the 2nd wave of american feminism was born. -
NOW founded
In 1966, the National Organization for Women or NOW was founded by Betty Friedan it’s the first and still the largest major women's liberation organization. She embraced lesbian rights as a non-negotiable feminist goal in 1977. It has been central to NOW's mission ever since. -
Shirley Chisholm
Shirley Chisholm (Democrat-New York) was not the first woman to run for nomination for U.S. president with a major party. That was Sen. Margaret Chase Smith (Republican-Maine) in 1964. But Chisholm was the first to make a serious, hard run. It was an opportunity for the women to have a feminist party. -
Roe v. Wade
Roe v wade helped the women to terminate her pregnancy. -
Stop discriminations
Alice Paul decided to stop all the discrimination towards women. -
The fight is not over
The rights against the freedom of women was over and for the new rights of women there was not all the women in. -
March for Women's
There was a march for women’s lives with 750 000 present on april 1992 in Washington D.C. Then, in 2004 they did another march for women’s lives but this time with LGBT rights groups and the needs of immigrants women and women of color. -
#metoo
The #metoo movement began to denounce the sexual bulling in the cinema’s workplaces and elsewhere.
