Women's history

Women's history is the history of female human beings. Women's rights refers to the social and human rights of women. One of the first women's rights declarations was the "Declaration of Sentiments". From women's involvement within the abolition movements, women became aware of male dominance and oppression. From then on women struggled for equality. The History of feminism reaches far back before the 18th century. (See Protofeminist.) The advent... more

Women's history is the history of female human beings. Women's rights refers to the social and human rights of women. One of the first women's rights declarations was the "Declaration of Sentiments". From women's involvement within the abolition movements, women became aware of male dominance and oppression. From then on women struggled for equality. The History of feminism reaches far back before the 18th century. (See Protofeminist.) The advent of the reformist age during the 19th century meant that those invisible minorities or marginalized majorities were to find a catalyst and a microcosm in such new tendencies of reform. The earliest works on the so-called "woman question" criticized the restrictive role of women, without necessarily claiming that women were disadvantaged or that men were to blame. In the UK, the Feminism movement began in the 1800s and continues in the present day. In the early 20th century, Simone de Beauvoir wrote a detailed analysis of women's oppression. In... less