Antiquity -- Feminism in the Middle Ages -- Early modern feminism -- Feminism in the Enlightenment -- Early socialist feminism -- Beginnings of an organized women's movement -- Women's wage labor -- Free love/The critique of marriage -- Women's right to vote and party politics -- The "other" sex? -- Autonomous women's movements -- The fight for autonomous pregnancy -- Domestic violence -- Housework, care, motherhood -- Womanism and intersectionality against the dominance of white, bourgeois women -- Gender mainstreaming and the promotion of women -- Liberation, not equalization -- Queer feminism -- Third-wave feminism.
Summary:
An engaging illustrated history of feminism from antiquity through third-wave feminism, featuring Sappho, Mary Magdalene, Mary Wollstonecraft, Sojourner Truth, Simone de Beauvoir, and many others.
This resource is supported by the Institute of Museum and Library Services under the provisions of the Library Services and Technology Act as administered by State Library of Iowa.