Feminism Europe Essay 2022

Running head: FEMINISM
FEMINISM
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Introduction:
Feminism is the ideology that believes in social, cultural, and political gender
equality. Rooted primarily in the West, Feminism is embodied globally and is endorsed by
numerous organizations dedicated to action on behalf of the rights and interests of women.
Women were restricted to the domestic boundaries for a long time, as evident by Western
history, while public life was reserved for men (Ferguson, 2017). Women in medieval Europe
were prohibited with the right to possess their property, get an education, or take part in
public life. In France until the end of the 19th century, women were forced to cover
themselves in public, while situations are almost similar in most of the other countries. The
concept of Feminism bloomed when the women started demanding liberty and enforcement
of rights that will be equally applied in all the sexes (Schneir, 2014).
Discussion
For decades, feminist campaigns have advocated for women's rights, such as the get
employment in public sectors, work, gain fair wages, right to vote, or equal opportunities,
own land, obtain an education, have equal rights in marriage, and have maternity leave. The
concept also denies the concept of bodily stereotyping and protects women from domestic
violence, and brutal crimes like sexual abuse and rape (Abrams, 2015).
The concept of modern Feminism has chronologic categories, based on the different
feministic issues they dealt with. The first movement was to establish the most primitive right
of every human being in a democratic world, the right to vote. The movement was lead by
Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Candy Stanton at the year 1848 in New York and called the
"Women's suffrage movement" (Van Wingerden and Van Wingerden, 2016). The second
movement that started in the 1960s somewhere advocated for women's cultural and legal
equality, including concerns concerning their legal inequality, domestic abuse, reproductive