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This lesson examines first-wave feminism — the earliest organised feminist movement, which focused primarily on securing legal and political rights for women, especially the right to vote (suffrage). First-wave feminism laid the foundations for all subsequent feminist thought and activism.
First-wave feminism emerged in the mid-19th century, in a context where women were severely disadvantaged:
Although she wrote before the formal first wave, Wollstonecraft is considered the intellectual founder of liberal feminism. Her key arguments:
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