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Grace Walker Feminism is characterised more by disagreement than by agreement. Discuss. Feminism is linked to the women's movement and is commonly connected with two basic beliefs: that women are disadvantaged because of their sex, and that this disadvantage should be overthrown. It highlights a political relationship between the sexes, the supremacy of men and the subjection of women. Mary Wollstonecraft's Vindication of the rights of women (1792) is generally considered to be the first text of modern feminism, written during the French revolution. It was only during the mid nineteenth century, however, that the women's movement gained a central focus: the campaign for female suffrage, the right to vote. This period is defined as the 'first wave' of feminism, during which it was believed that if women could vote all other forms of sexual discrimination would disappear. When this was achieved at the start of the twentieth century, most believed that...

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