Megan Powell
Penn State Hazleton
Cas 100 Section 001
Speech Communications
 Video
 What
is Feminism
 History
 Why women become feminists
 Feminist movements
 Movement History
 Conclusion
 Resources
 Contact Information
 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qGpZs95
oSl0&feature=fvst
“My Idea of feminism is self-determination,
and it’s very open-ended: every woman has the
right to become herself, and do whatever she
needs to do”
-a quote by Ani Defranco
-In article Kathy Henry published in 2007,
she defined feminism as the philosophy where
women and their contributions are valued. They
want equal rights in social, political and economic
acts as to men.
Also feminism can be described as a
movement where women and even men would
wish for equal boundaries in the world for women.
(Henry)
1792:Philosopher Mary Wollstonecraft, wrote books as a response to
two great wealthy men, Edmund Burke and Thomas Paine. These
guys wrote a book named “The Rights of Man.” Which focused on a
mans right. Mary then wrote a book in response called “A
Vindication of the Rights of Men” and also “A Vindication of the
Rights of Women” which started feminism.
1848: A lady by the name of Elizabeth Cady Stanton wrote “A
Declaration of Sentiments” which talked about how rights weren’t
given to women which should have been such as voting.
1896: A group of black women, which was led by Mary Church
Terrell, started a National Association for Colored Women. This
feminist movement became identified as popular.
1942: Rosie the Riveter- popular after World War II, showed that
women work just as hard as men do and also effective. (Head)
1966: The National Organization for Women (NOW) was founded and a
women named Betty Friedan wrote a book called “ The Feminine Mystique”
which was about problems of gender roles, workforce, regulations,
government discrimination and other everyday problems. NOW is the first
and largest major women’s liberation organization.
1973: Feminism vs. religious rights- controversial right of terminating
pregnancies through religious standpoints. Abortion was still made illegal.
(head)
1993: A new generation, feminist Rebecca Walker, which was
Southern, African- American, Jewish and bisexual, started the new
generation movement which describe young females who worked
together to create a better and comprehensive movement.
2004: A second March for Women’s Lives was organized and a total
of 1.4 million feminists came together to march for rights and how
powerful women are in the world today. (Head)
Women would most likely to become feminists
because they would get sick of being treated like
they had no say in the society. Women didn’t
have same rights that men do and women felt
like they should be equal to men. Women knew
that they could do anything just as well as a man
can do, but society didn’t think that. So women
of different ages and races came together to
fight for their rights.
Why?
- to campaign the reforms on issues
such as:
• Domestic
violence
• Maternity leave
• Equal pay
• Voting rights
• Sexual
harassment
• Sexual Violence
(feminist Movement)
Movements went through three waves
beginning in the 18th century.
1st wave(18th thru 20th centuries): involve
middle or upper class white women; involved
suffrage and political equality.
2nd wave (1960’s-1980’s): included combat
social and cultural inequalities.
3rd wave: started in 1980 to early 1990’s;
campaigned for greater influence in politics.
Also a continuation of the 2nd wave movement.
(-feminist movement)
Feminism has been around for many centuries.
Many feminists protested throughout the years.
Some of the protests included from fighting for
women’s rights to showing how powerful women
really are. The movements were categorized
from 1st wave movements, to 2nd wave
movements and finally 3rd wave movements. The
final outcome from all the movements shows us
how females achieved they could be as strong as
a man in the world today.

ThinkExist.com Quotations. “Feminism quotes”. ThinkExist.com Quotations Online 1 Sep. 2010. 8 Oct. 2010
<http://einstein/quotations/feminism/>
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Henry, Kathy "What is Feminism?." What is Feminism?. 29 Mar. 2007 EzineArticles.com. 8 Oct. 2010
<http://ezinearticles.com/?What-is-Feminism?&id=507805
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Wikipedia contributors. "Feminist movement." Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia. Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia, 4 Oct. 2010.
Web. 8 Oct. 2010.
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Head, Tom “ Feminism in The United States” About.com 2001.11. October. 2010
http://civilliberty.about.com/od/gendersexuality/tp/History-of-Feminism.htm
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Library of Congress http://0.tqn.com/d/civilliberty/1/0/w/6/-/-/feminism6.jpg
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http://www.thenation.com/sites/default/files/images/media/doc/d64/1212086953-large.jpg
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