MEANING

 

It is a modern movement to promote the full equality of women with men and the high valuation of

women as human beings.

 

Charles Fourier, a Utopian Socialist and French philosopher, is credited with having coined the word "feminism" in 1837.

The history of modern feminism movements is divided into three waves:

1. 1848:It is a first wave of Feminism which focuses on social and economical equality of women.
2. 1960: It is a second wave of Feminism which is called as "The Red Theory".
3.  1990:It is a third wave of Feminism which focus on equality.

 

 

 

 A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (1792) by Mary Wollstonecraft, is one of the earliest works of feminist philosophy and A Room of One's Own (1929) by Virginia Woolf, is noted in its argument for both a literal and figural space for women writers were considered as one of the best example of the Feminist movement.