Famous Feminists
Posted on May 13, 2007
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Most people think that feminism started sometime around the nineteen sixties when women started burning their bras and stopped shaving their legs for a while. In fact, feminism has been around for centuries! Don’t be fooled by the stereotype of the “militant feminist.” Feminists have worked within their societies for hundreds of years to promote equal rights for both genders! Here are a few of history’s most famous feminists:
Abigail Adams: Abigail was one of the first women to speak out against slavery in the late eighteenth century. She also worked to better life for women, long before the abolitionist movement had begun to gain popularity.
Susan B. Anthony: There is a reason Susan has earned her own coin. Susan worked to emancipate slaves during the Civil War and she formed the Women’s Loyal League, who worked to support the policies of Abraham Lincoln. She was one of the first women to vote in the United States and was arrested and tried at court for doing so (she was the only woman in her group to actually go to trial).
Elizabeth Blackwell: She was the first female doctor in the United States and her college admission was done as a joke—which she answered by graduating at the top of her class in 1849. She opened her own clinic after the hospitals in America refused to employ her.
Amelia Jenks Bloomer: started the first newspaper to be edited by women in the late nineteenth century. Defended women’s right to wear pantaloons (”bloomers”).
Carrie Chapman Catt: Helped women gain the right to vote in 1920. Worked for decades to make this happen and founded the National League of Women Voters.
Betty Friedan: Betty helped found the National Organization for Women and is most famous for her book The Feminine Mystique. She also helped to co-found the First Women’s Bank and the International Feminist Congress.
Sojourner Truth: Sojourner was born as a slave and was originally named Isabella Van Wagner. She was the first African American to be victorious in a slander case against Caucasian Americans. She is best known for her “Ain’t I a Woman” speech that she delivered at the Women’s Convention in 1851.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton: Elizabeth worked closely with Susan B. Anthony on the Women’s Loyal National League and helped found the National Woman Suffrage Association and wrote The Woman’s Bible. She also helped to organize the first women’s rights convention with Lucretia Mott and at that convention helped to author the Declaration of Sentiments.
Thanks to stereotypes, many people see feminism as something that angry women like to scream about. While there are certainly plenty of extreme feminists, the ideology behind the feminist movement is simply that the female genitalia do not render a human inferior to a human with male genitalia. Women have worked for centuries to have the same rights and opportunities as men—this is the heart of the feminist movement: equality under the law. Feminism is not about keeping men down, it is about promoting women and their right to equality.
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They disrespect us so I’m gonna do it back..
its really not good to be disrespectful no matter who it is? i’m black and im of yahsharan so dont jump on me next
Perhaps it is because male feminists are not out to seek fame; I think all they really want is to be treated equally.
Still, I can think of a few male feminists (I believe they actually refer to themselves as masuclinists.) who have made quite a name for themselves; Warren Farrel, Murray Straus, Richard Gelles, etc…
As for me, I am not a feminist, nor am I a masculinist; I sir, am an equalitist. An equalitist is what I call someone who believes and lives by the conviction that equality is a right that was intended for everyone.
Golda Meir at U of Wisconsin Milwaukee!!
This is an observation made to test the validity of another's statement. While you not only disproved the statement (which, I must say, was made in ignorance), you did so while being honest with your opinions, without making fun of anyone OR their opinions, and all the while maintained that it's all subjective.
I'm not a feminist. I'm not an ugly nor an attractive woman. I'm just me. What people need to realize is that the other person, who stated that "ugly" women are more likely to be feminists, (therein insinuating that it is the less physically attractive (to whom?) women that are jealous/angry/misplaced enough to cause a ruckus), was proved to be wrong in his train of thought.
Thanks for an interesting perspective that was executed respectfully.
Ok I’ll break it down 4 you.
Zephaniah 2:12 =
Nebukanezar (God’s sword, Isa 10:5) conquered Egypt, with which Ethiopia was closely connected as its ally (Jer 46:2-9; Eze 30:5-9).
Ye-literally, “They.” The third person expresses estrangement; while doomed before God’s tribunal in the second person, they are spoken of in the third as aliens from God.
Gloria Steinem
Yaruba=Ancient egyptians? i cant stop laughing looooooooooool if you really want to know who the ancient egyptians really are maybe you should go to horn of africa.well i can only laugh abou your western bible. and AGAIN Zephaniah 2:12 already been fulfilled by the time of king nebukanezar.
Not in this century. and most feminist are not hot anyway.. Other than Jane Reno.. (neck jiggle..)
V2 Millions Israelites MIGRATE INTO AFRICA WAVEs#2 & 3 SO YUDA= SOUDAN
nigga all Ethiopians(Cushites) were not Babylonians just because Nimrod was from Cush/Ethiopian..i aint gone waste my time arguing with you..because I already see what your trying to get at!
the book of daniel foretells of Babylon fallinG …then u should know that Babylon is the mystery Babylon spoken of in Revelation..which is AMERICA!
Below is a list of the main laws which have come into being due largely to women (feminists) lobbying for. I challenge you to find EVEN ONE which has anything to do with man hating.
1870 The Married Women’s Property Act allows married women to own their own property.
1907 Women admitted to all aspects of local government employment.
1910 Women were allowed to take exams to be chartered accountants.
1918 Women over 30 are granted the right to vote in Britain.
1918 The Parliamentary Qualification of Women Act is passed, enabling women to stand as MP.
1919 The legal profession was opened to women.
1921 Unemployment benefits are extended to include allowances for wives.
1922 The Law of Property Act allows both husband and wife to inherit property equally.
1923 The Matrimonial Causes Act makes grounds for divorce the same for women and men.
1928 All women in Britain gain equal voting rights with men.
1956 In Britain, legal reforms say that women teachers and civil servants should receive equal pay.
1956 The Sexual Offences Act defines rape under specific criteria, such as incest, sex with a girl under 16, no consent, use of drugs, anal sex and impersonation.
1964 The Married Women’s Property Act entitles a woman to keep half of any savings she has made from the allowance she is given by her husband.
1967 Decriminalization of abortion in Britain on certain grounds.
1970 The Equal Pay Act makes it illegal to pay women lower rates than men
1972 Erin Pizzey sets up the first women’s refuge in Chiswick
1975 The Sex Discrimination Act makes it illegal to discriminate against women in work, education and training. for the same work.
1975 The Employment Protection Act introduces statutory maternity provision and makes it illegal to sack a woman because she is pregnant.
1977 Women’s Aid lobbies government to acknowledge women and children at risk of violence as homeless and introduce their right to state help with temporary accommodation.
1982 The Court of Appeal decides that bars and pubs are no longer able to refuse to service women at the bar as this constitutes sex discrimination
1986 The Sex Discrimination (Amendment) Act enables women to retire at the same age as men. It also lifts the legal restrictions which prevent women from working night shifts in factories.
1991 Independent taxation for women is introduced. For the first time, married women are taxed separately from their husbands.
1993 With the help of lobbying by women’s organisations around the world, the United Nations Declaration on the Elimination of Violence against Women affirms that violence against women violates their human rights.
1994 Rape in marriage is made a crime after 15 years of serious campaigning by women’s organisations.
1994 A House of Lords ruling gives equal rights to part-time workers. the majority of which are women.
1996 Women’s Aid successfully lobbies government for more effective civil remedies for protection from violent partners with automatic powers of arrest where violence has been used or threatened.
A new law on parental leave enables both men and women to take up to 13 weeks off to care for children under age five.
2002 Parliament passes measures allowing lesbian and unmarried couples to adopt children.
2003 The Female Genital Mutilation Act strengthens and amends the Prohibition of Female Circumcision Act of 1985. For the first time, it is an offence for UK nationals or permanent UK residents to carry out female genital mutilation abroad, or to aid, abet, council, or procure the carrying out of female genital mutilation, even in countries where the practice is legal.
2005 The first civil registrations of same-sex couples takes place as a result of the long campaigned for Civil Partnerships Act.
I am really sick of men painting feminists as man haters, several of these laws have benefitted men as well as women.
Cush give birth to Nimrod, but Ethiopians are not descendent from Nimrod!! THATS EXACTLY WHAT I’AM TRYING TO EXPLAIN TO Poppalito …he fail to recognize this! because Nimrod was an Ethiopian(Cushite)..he wanna group all Ethiopians as Babylonians..thats like saying all Judahites were Pharasees lol
Hating ass White folk, don’t get mad cuz your not Black! Go to Hell where you belong!
Hillary Clinton
OK, your turn again =)
Probably Amelia Earheart.
Or Susan B. Anthony, she was more a professional feminist.
Susan B. Anthony immediately comes to mind. Massachusetts. Here's a link:
http://www.susanbanthonyhouse.org/biography.shtml