Feminism In The 1800s

The term feminism came around in the late 1800’s originally from France (feminism), femme meaning woman and ism meaning political identity. A French philosopher named Charles Fourier came up with the term while writing about women’s status and social progress. The world moved over to America in the early 1900’s. Nonetheless the meaning behind the term has always been around in the western world – the belief that society should seek to create a social, political, and equal opportunity between males and females. Another way society looked at feminism was for a woman to be able to determine their style of living. It was a positive step towards worldly equality and development of basic human rights.
Before the word feminism came around to America the word that was more popular was “women liberationist” but as time passed and the term started to have a bad reputation. Once a newspaper article about a French
It’s about socialist, anti-family political movement that encourages women to leave their husbands and destroy capitalism. Feminists were even compared to Nazi’s and the word “feminazi” came around. This clearly shows how twisted and injurious the outlook on feminism has become. Remarks liThe term feminism came around in the late 1800’s originally from France (feminism), femme meaning woman and ism meaning political identity. A French philosopher named Charles Fourier came up with the term while writing about women’s status and social progress. The world moved over to America in the early 1900’s. Nonetheless the meaning behind the term has always been around in the western world – the belief that society should seek to create a social, political, and equal opportunity between males and females. Another way society looked at feminism was for a woman to be able to determine their style of living. It was a positive step towards worldly equality and development of basic human