Global Feminism
"We all fight over what the label 'feminism' means but for me it's about empowerment. It's not about being more powerful than men - it's about having equal rights with protection, support, justice."
-Annie Lennox
-Annie Lennox
Western feminism started before chinese feminism and greatly influenced it.
The Seneca Falls Convention
The Seneca Falls Convention in 1848 was the first feminist convention in America. It outlined the grievances and goals of the women's rights movement and was the first major steps in achieving equality.
The Seneca Falls Convention in 1848 was the first feminist convention in America. It outlined the grievances and goals of the women's rights movement and was the first major steps in achieving equality.
"We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men and women are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness." -Reading of the Declaration of Sentiments. |
Influential Feminist Books
"Equity knows no difference of sex... This might have been thought a self-evident truth, needing only to be stated to meet with universal acceptation. There are many, however, who either tacitly, or in so many words, express their dissent from it." -Social Statistics (1851) by Herbert Spencer |
“I consider it presumption in anyone to pretend to decide what women are or are not, can or cannot be, by natural constitution. They have always hitherto been kept, as far as regards spontaneous development, in so unnatural a state, that their nature cannot but have been greatly distorted and disguised... and if no artificial bent were attempted to be given to it except that required by the conditions of human society, and given to both sexes alike, there would be any material difference, or perhaps any difference at all, in the character and capacities which would unfold themselves.”
-The Subjection of Women (1869) by John Stuart Mills |