first write up about feminism history

The history of feminism has been a long and difficult struggle for women to gain the rights they deceive, and even today the fight for equal rights still continues across the globe. One of the pivotal points for the feminist movements was in 1792 when Mary Wollstonecraft wrote ‘A Vindication of the Rights of Women’, which was the first time that women’s rights had been publicly bought into the light. She demanded an end to double standards and the women’s right to independent work, education, and to political represented by a women. It was an instant best seller and formed the basis of feminist beliefs. Across the channel the French Revolution gave women the chance of changing the old regime and bringing a new-enlightened ideal. News of the uproar in Europe traveled to America giving women hope that they could ‘overthrow the domestic tyranny of men,’ and it was through the movement against slavery that gave all women the chance to organize a political movement against their oppression. This included the story of Harriet Tubman (1823-1913), one of many black women, who risked her life on the Underground Railroad that led the slaves to freedom. The first Women’s Rights Convention was held in 1848, but it was nearly ten years before the state legislatures began passing reforms dealing with women’s rights issues that had been campaigned for, including the right for a married women to have her wages paid directly to her and not her husband. In 1850’s, similar campaigns were being fought over in the United Kingdom with Barbara Leigh Smith and Bessie Rayner, amongst other courageous women, also known as the “Ladies of Langham Place.” In the 1860’s and 70’s a second generation of Feminism rose; the social purity movement that deemed alcohol, violence and pornography as reasons for unkindly male behavior. At the turn of the century the campaigns began focusing on votes for a women, but they didn’t get the vote until 1918, although Australia women go tin the vote in 1909, but aboriginal women didn’t get it until 1967. The British movement was headed in Britain primarily by the Pankhurst Family; Emmeline, Sylvia and Christabel.