![]() At the same time, the idea of a “second wave” also linked the movement to those earlier activists in a long, worthy struggle for women’s rights.Ĭritics of the “wave” concept argue that it oversimplifies a more complicated history by suggesting that only one distinct type of feminism exists at any one time in history. This concept of the “waves of feminism” first surfaced in the late 1960s as a way of differentiating the emerging women’s movement at the time from the earlier movement for women’s rights that originated in 1848 with the Seneca Falls Convention. Because of these generational differences, it’s common to hear feminism divided into four distinct waves, each roughly corresponding to a different time period. ![]() Yet not all of these movements have pursued the same specific goals, taken the same approaches to activism or included the same groups of women in their rallying cry. Since the mid-19th century, organized feminist movements in the United States have called for greater political, economic and cultural freedom and equality for women. ![]()
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