First-wave feminism
First-wave feminism refers to a period of feminist activity during the 19th and early 20th century throughout the world, particularly in the United Kingdom, Canada, the Netherlands and the United States. It focused on legal issues, primarily on gaining women's suffrage (the right to vote).
The term first-wave was coined in March 1968 by Marsha Lear writing in The New York Times Magazine, who at the same time also used the term "second-wave feminism". At that time, the women's movement was focused on de facto (unofficial) inequalities, which it wished to distinguish from the objectives of the earlier feminists.
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Jeanette Rankin was the first woman elected to Congress in the United States, winning an at-large seat in Montana in 1916. - The National Woman Suffrage Association and the American Woman Suffrage Association
The NWSA and AWSA operated independently, with some antagonism, until they reunified in 1890, forming the NAWSA. - Frances Wright, an Early American Feminist Radical
Frances Wright was an early American feminist and political activist. Her Nashoba community in Tennessee tried to make the case for abolitionism.
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- Catching a Wave: Reclaiming Feminism for the 21st Century - Rory Dicker
- First Wave of Feminism in Politics and Literature - Antje Kahle
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