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the suffragette movement

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Hello, we are going to present you an idea of progress which is the suffragette movement and the resistance it faced, so in the first part we will present you this movement, then we will show you why the suffragette and the feminism are an idea of progress. Although women started to work full-time during the industrial revolution, they were intended to be housewives, that meant that in the nineteenth century, women had no place in national politics. John St...

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The first wave was directed by Emmeline Pankhurst (1858-1928) who was a British political activist and leader of the British suffragette movement who helped women win the right to vote.

She was named as one of the 100 most important people of the 20th century.

The second wave with the anti-Vietnam War, Civil Rights movements, rebellion of minority groups, the Swinging Sixties...was conducted by Simone de Beauvoir from 1960's to 1990's she was a French writer, intellectual, existentialist philosopher, political activist, feminist and social theorist.

Though she did not consider herself a philosopher, she had a significant influence on both feminist existentialism and feminist theory.

The third wave was operated by Rebecca Walker 1990's till now, to put an end to violence towards women Its a continuation of the 2nd wave...Walker has been regarded as one of the prominent voices of Third Wave Feminism since she published an article on feminism in 1992 in Ms. magazine in which she proclaimed "I am the Third Wave.". »

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