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The feminist movement?
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What are the ideals and history of the feminist movement? Feminism is the ideology of women's liberation centred on the belief that women suffer injustices because of their sex. One pioneer of feminism in the late 18th century was Mary Wollstonecraft. In 1792, she published A Vindication of the Rights of Women. It was probably the first great feminist treatise. In it, Wollstonecraft preached that intellect will always govern. She addressed the legal, economic and educational disabilities of women and believed that women had the right to an education and that the progress of society relied upon the equal education of men and women. Wollstonecraft was critical of marriage and stated that it was nothing more than "legalized prostitution". She paved the way for modern feminism. The first wave feminists were those who worked for the reform of women's social and legal inequalities in the 19th century. In the 1850s, at Langham...
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