Feminism : A Very Short Introduction_ Margaret Walters

FEMINISM

A Very Short Introduction

Margaret Walters

Oxford University Press

Format PDF 1.86

Pages  164

List of illustrations ix

Introduction 1

1 The religious roots of feminism 6

2 The beginning of secular feminism 17

3 The 18th century: Amazons of the pen 26

4 The early 19th century: reforming women 41

5 The late 19th century: campaigning women 56

6 Fighting for the vote: suffragists 68

7 Fighting for the vote: suffragettes 75

8 Early 20th-century feminism 86

9 Second-wave feminism: the late 20th century 97

10 Feminists across the world 117

Afterword 137

References 142

Further reading 149

Index 151