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The Mouvement de libération des femmes ( MLF, transl. Women's Liberation Movement) is a French autonomous, single-sex feminist movement that advocates women's bodily autonomy and challenges patriarchal society. It was founded in 1970, in the wake of the American Women's Lib movement and the events of May 1968.
e. Feminism in France is the history of feminist thought and movements in France. Feminism in France can be roughly divided into three waves: First-wave feminism from the French Revolution through the Third Republic which was concerned chiefly with suffrage and civic rights for women. Significant contributions came from revolutionary movements ...
The women's liberation movement ( WLM) was a political alignment of women and feminist intellectualism. It emerged in the late 1960s and continued into the 1980s, primarily in the industrialized nations of the Western world, which effected great change (political, intellectual, cultural) throughout the world. The WLM branch of radical feminism ...
Women in France obtained many reproductive rights in the second half of the 20th century. The Neuwirth Act of 1967 authorized contraception. The Veil Law of 1975 legalized abortion. The maternal mortality rate in France is 8.00 deaths/100,000 live births (as of 2010). France's HIV/AIDS rate is 0.4% of adults (aged 15–49) - estimates of 2009.
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Emergence of the women's movement André Léo. The French Revolution of 1848 gave birth to some famous female figures such as Jeanne Deroin, and Pauline Roland who were however quickly forgotten, for the role they took for the Condition of women in France in 1848 ). The fight for women's rights continued in an intellectual way, leaving aside ...
The French Union for Women's Suffrage ( UFSF: French: Union française pour le suffrage des femmes) was a French feminist organization formed in 1909 that fought for the right of women to vote, which was eventually granted in 1945. The Union took a moderate approach, advocating staged introduction of suffrage starting with local elections, and ...
The Ministry of Women's Rights (now a secretariat) was a ministry of the Government of France . As of 2017 (under Macron and the Philippe Government ), Marlène Schiappa is the Secretary of State of the new Secretariat of Equality between women and men department. [1] Françoise Giroud was the Minister for Women's Affairs in the first prime ...