... the feminist movement within Britain and America. The key themes concerning these first wave feminists centred around education, employment, and marriage laws. This movement was originally dominated by intelligent, middle-class, single women who were not that concerned by the problems facing women from the working classes. At the time these women did not view themselves as feminists in the modern sense of the word, infact the term was not coined until 1985. Individual feminists such as Mary Wollstonecraft to quote an example, had long been influential in their arguments condemning the injustices suffered by women, yet it was not until the late 18hundreds that something in the form of an organised feminist movement evolved within Britain and America. Feminism certainly did not originate in the early 19 hundreds surrounding the fight for suffrage; rather it can be traced as far back as to the seventeenth century with the advance of capitalism. Despite ...

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