A feminist historian gives a summary of theSocial Purity Movement– the 19th century pre-curser of feminism and the origin of the Sexual Trade Union. The historian – Laura Hapke – makes the claim that the Social Purity Movement was ‘not fully feminist’ because it tended to opppose contrac...
Thus, a complete understanding of the origin and development of nineteenth century feminism in the United States re- quires that the geographical focus be widened to include Europe and that the detailed study made of social conditions be expanded to include the ideological development of feminism. ...
In view of contemporary feminist and postmodern critiques of the origin of human rights, uncovering women's history of the United Nations from both Southern and Western perspectives allows us to consider questions of feminism and agency in international relations afresh. With contributions from leading...
Remember that the fields are now composed of "gender history" (history of male-female relationships), feminist history (feminism and feminist issues seen historically), and women's history (more encompassing and generally interested in exploring all aspects of women's past). I think that for ...
Darwin provided two definitions of sexual selection: inOrigin of Species(1859)48, his first definition was “Sexual selection… depends, not on a struggle for existence, but on a struggle between the males for possession of the females; the result is not death to the unsuccessful competitor, ...
of art, she’s still historically significant to be among those first women sculptures in human history. I put her in the first place to show the origin of art of woman’s nudity as the first ‘blurred’ phase of femininity. Given the fact that she is so small in both height and ...
Scientists, in their never-ending quest to discover the origin of the universe, have detected a disturbing pattern in the subatomic radio-sonic waves which first emanated from the cosmic dust from the Big Bang. There remains an as-yet-indeterminate in nature yet measurable ‘noise’, an echo ...
Scientists, in their never-ending quest to discover the origin of the universe, have detected a disturbing pattern in the subatomic radio-sonic waves which first emanated from the cosmic dust from the Big Bang. There remains an as-yet-indeterminate in nature yet measurable ‘noise’, an echo ...
—in fact is also the history of women superheroes and how comic books have changed over their 80 years. so armor up; let's get to it. a mar-vellous origin when marvel comics introduced carol danvers in 1968, she was a supporting character in the publisher’s book captain marvel , ...
The Fair Housing Act of 1968 was amended to prohibit discrimination based on sex along with race, color, religion, and national origin. The Combahee River Collective began as a group of Black feminists who wanted to clarify their place in the politics of feminism. Ntozake Shange wrote and d...