Women and Feminism?

Question

How did feminism change and evolve from the
late
18th to the early 20th century?

Answer 1

Before they actually fought for something called women's rights...

Now-a-days it's more about getting back at the men by acting like lesbians and not giving up their butts!

I used to go to college with a so-called feminist but i think she had herself confused with a real feminist. She was sexually frustrated from not getting any action so she took a hatred towards men and called herself a feminist. Just thinking of her makes me mad.

Answer 2

Women and men generally worked together in farm, fishery or other small-proprietorship households up until the industrial revolution. There lives were very interconnected and interdependent.

With Ind-Rev-era serpation of employment and increased social stratification, women began being systematically excluded from public life throughout the course of the 1800s. They lost voting (for porperty owning women) and other legal rights around 1832 (in the British Empire. I'm not sure about the States). By the late 1800s, women mobilised to regain rights and to fight for social reform in labour and temperance. This era of feminism lasted until the 1920s, when many of their goals received at least some attention.

Answer 3

Evolve? technically the idea of feminism didn't exist till the late 19th century, unless you count Abigail Adams request to "remember the women" to John Adams during revolutionary times, and even that was from a submissive stance.

In my mind, it really began with Elizabeth Cady Stanton, and Susan B Anthony pre-Seneca Falls. As far as how it evolved from there, the issues have changed, rights have been won, but one constant idea remains: Women are perfectly capable human beings.

EDIT: the source provided above ignores female contribution to agricultural societies as well as sex discrimination within industrial careers. (prime example of post hoc, ergo propter hoc) Check out a women's history book from a library.

Answer 4

This is long, but it's an awesome start for you.

"Industrialization, for all of its horrors and all of its nightmarish secondary effects, was first and foremost a technological means to secure subsistence NOT from human muscle working on nature, but from machine power working on nature. As long as agrarian societies demanded physical human labor for subsistence (plowing), those societies INEVITABLY and UNAVOIDABLY placed a premium on MALE physical strength and mobility. No known agrarian society has anything even vaguely resembling women's rights.

But within a century of industrialization--which removed the emphasis on male physical strength and replaced it with gender-neutral engines--the women's movement emerged for the first time in history on any sort of large scale. Mary Wollstonecraft's "Vindication on the Rights of Women" was written in 1792; it is the first major feminist treatise anywhere in history.

It is not that all of a sudden, women became smart and strong and determined after a million years of oppression, dupedom, and sheepdom. It is that the social structures had evolved, for the first time in history, to a point that physical strength did not overwhelmingly determine power in culture. Biology was no longer desitny when it came to gender roles. Within a mere few centuries--a blink in evolutionary time-- women had acted with lightning speed to secure legal rights to own property, to vote, and to "be their own persons," that is, to have a property in their own selves."

Answer 5

I think a very big part of it had to do with men having to go to war .

Women were doing traditional male jobs, because all the men were serving in WW1 and WW2 .

PS : They had no other choices .

Answer 6

Originally, it was mostly about suffrage. Women even used stereotypes to their advantage (for instance, using their roles as "moral compasses" to advocate temperance and abolition). Later on, it became more about equal treatment, be it in legislature, careers, or simply in the day-to-day world.

Answer 7

Feminism have always been about giving women all the advantage and special benefits.

Answer 8

women got a voice and there you have it- feminism evolved and will continue to evolve.... the burning of the bras...witchcraft..... womens poetry- carol ann duffy.....all these things are feminist.....go on google and type in "the history of feminism"

Answer 9

During they 1920's women could vote -Seneca Falls, NY.
2nd world war, women could work, they had men's jobs while they fought overseas

during they vietnam era, women wanted equality.

now, women want power.

Some women just want to "dog" men. That isn't right.

Answer 10

Because of their percentage is more and they had more time for their change.