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Wollstonecraft is regarded as one of the founding feminist philosophers, and feminists often cite both her life and her works as important influences. During her brief career she wrote novels, treatises, a travel narrative , a history of the French Revolution , a conduct book , and a children's book.
1978: Sisterwrite, Britain's first feminist bookshop, [173] opened in 1978; it was run as a collective. [174] [175] [176] 1978: Organisation of Women of Asian and African Descent (OWAAD), founded 1978; was a feminist umbrella collective organising under a political black identity [177] 1979: The Kennel Club began admitting women members in 1979 ...
Elizabeth Garrett Anderson (1836–1917) – physician, feminist, first dean of a British medical school, first female mayor, and magistrate in Britain; Louisa Garrett Anderson (1873–1943) – Chief Surgeon of Women's Hospital Corps, Fellow of Royal Society of Medicine, jailed for her suffragist activities
The First World War advanced the feminist cause, as women's sacrifices and paid employment were much appreciated. Prime Minister David Lloyd George was clear about how important the women were: It would have been utterly impossible for us to have waged a successful war had it not been for the skill and ardour, enthusiasm and industry which the ...
1963: The Feminine Mystique was published; it is a book written by Betty Friedan which is widely credited with starting the beginning of second-wave feminism in the United States. [ 5 ] [ 6 ] Second-wave feminism was a period of feminist activity and thought that began in the early 1960s in the United States, and spread throughout the Western ...
John Grey, Butler's father, portrait by George Patten. Josephine Grey was born on 13 April 1828 at Milfield, Northumberland.She was the fourth daughter and seventh child of Hannah (née Annett) and John Grey, a land agent and agricultural expert, [2] [3] [a] who was a cousin of the reformist British Prime Minister, Lord Grey. [5]
On their return to Sussex, they lived openly together at Brown's and had two more children. After the last was born in 1833, Anne fell ill with tuberculosis. Smith leased 9 Pelham Crescent, Hastings, which faced the sea, whose healthy properties were highly regarded at the time. A local woman, Hannah Walker, was employed to look after the children.
Female writers of the utopian literature movement at the time of first-wave feminism often addressed sexism. Charlotte Perkins Gilman's Herland (1915) did so. [clarification needed] Sultana's Dream (1905) by Bengali Muslim feminist Roquia Sakhawat Hussain depicts a gender-reversed purdah in a futuristic world.