Women's Rights: The Feminist Movement

There are many things that have changed when coming to women and their rights. Some people would say that today women are the ones that hold everything together in the world. I would have to agree with that statement. In those days women was looked at like property that was to be owned by a male and women was not nothing without a man in their lives. There was young when they was turned into a women. The Feminist Theory was a theory that stated that in a community, how women and men would know the purpose of women lives. It was a sociological theory that questioned the different between race, sexuality, ethicality, age, class and nationality within a woman’s life. As before women was said to be property for men to do what they wanted. The …show more content…
This theory was to empower women to have a mind of their own and to be able to speak for themselves. The theory in history was stated to show the importance of a role of the women in those days but also make them equal as to men as well. Well Maggie Humm and Rebecca Walker said it was three waves of feminist. The suffrage movement and the right to vote was the 19th to 20th century. The liberation movement was 1960-1970. The second wave of feminism was 1990 to present day. Those philosophical fields that was studied was disciplines, history and sociology. After battling 22 years, women was allowed to vote in 1920. The Feminist Theory was founded in the 1830’s and said to be founded in the Seneca Falls of New York by Patricia Hill Collins, which she was known for the using and developing of the theory. Some Feminist think that women are different and need to be used as special and should have meaning. If women are special and show special they are, then the world would be looked at a whole different way and ruled in a different way as …show more content…
The textbook said that women needed to be virgins to marry and they would need to be teenagers. Wow that is young back in those days to marry. So from birth to 13 you could be a child well up to about 7 and then you had to learn how to be a housewife and worker. That just seems like a short life to be a child and have fun. You was called a “broken vessel” if you was not a virgin on your wedding night (Morris 31). Prostitutes are those ones that was usually not virgins and never married. Some of the prostitutes was throw away from their fathers because they was girls and most men wanted boys to carry on the way of life for them after their