Most conservative women, if asked about the first wave of feminism, would voice general approval. It is seen as a rather pure approach to women’s issues, focused on protecting women and ...

The first wave of feminism refers to the campaign for the vote. It began in the United States in 1848 with the Seneca Falls Convention, where 300 gathered to debate Elizabeth Cady Stanton’s ...

Feminism is a broad church and the online discourse around it is so frequently dominated by conflict between different schools of feminism that it can be difficult to pinpoint what it’s all about.

ABC News spoke to feminists across the generations to define modern feminism. Feminism, the first wave of which began with the suffrage movement in the mid-1800s, looks vastly different today than ...

A journey into the Byzantine world of feminist scholarship reveals that there have been three “waves” of feminism in this country. The first wave sought to give women the right to vote; it succeeded.

Despite common misconceptions, Fisher defines feminism as "a movement that advocates for equal rights." Fisher said the start of the first wave of feminism in the United States is nebulous, but it can ...

Even before it published its first issue in 1971, Ms., the feminist magazine co-founded by Gloria Steinem, had vocal critics.

This affirmative version of feminism, she argues, is a return to the origins of the vision espoused by first-wave feminists, who coalesced in the mid-19th century to advocate for women’s needs ...

It has been so successful because it has been fairly quiet. First-wave feminism early in the 20th century made great public scandal, as the suffragettes were willing to go to jail. They believed ...

Australia needs another feminist revolution The first wave: from 1848 The first wave of feminism refers to the campaign for the vote. It began in the United States in 1848 with the Seneca Falls ...