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3 days ago · Mary Wollstonecraft (/ ˈ w ʊ l s t ən k r æ f t /, also UK: /-k r ɑː f t /; 27 April 1759 – 10 September 1797) was a British writer, philosopher, and advocate of women's rights. Until the late 20th century, Wollstonecraft's life, which encompassed several unconventional personal relationships at the time, received more attention than her writing.
3 days ago · In the 20th century, Wollstonecraft was embraced as a hero by a new generation of feminists, with Simone de Beauvoir crediting "A Vindication" as the first book of feminist theory. Today, over 200 years after her death, Wollstonecraft‘s words continue to resonate powerfully around the world.
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2 days ago · The most influential feminist writer of the time was the colourful journalist Margaret Fuller, whose Woman in the Nineteenth Century was published in 1845. Her dispatches from Europe for the New York Tribune helped create to synchronize the women's rights movement. Matilda Joslyn Gage Bessie Rayner Parkes
2 days ago · First-wave feminism was a period of feminist activity and thought that occurred during the 19th and early 20th century throughout the Western world. It focused on legal issues, primarily on securing women's right to vote .
May 9, 2024 · Catharine Beecher (born September 6, 1800, East Hampton, New York, U.S.—died May 12, 1878, Elmira, New York) was an American educator and author who popularized and shaped a conservative ideological movement to both elevate and entrench women’s place in the domestic sphere of American culture. Beecher was the eldest daughter in one of the ...
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May 19, 2024 · Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. Margaret Fuller (born May 23, 1810, Cambridgeport [now part of Cambridge], Mass., U.S.—died July 19, 1850, at sea off Fire Island, N.Y.) was an American critic, teacher, and woman of letters whose efforts to civilize the taste and enrich the lives of her contemporaries make her significant in the history of ...
May 7, 2024 · Auclert was a republican socialist and an important early militant feminist of the late-nineteenth century. Founder of the feminist newspaper La citoyenne in 1881, Auclert was an advocate of French women's civil rights and suffrage. She traveled to Algeria with her partner and eventual husband which opened her mind to women's status world-wide ...
