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An active participant in the Indian independence movement, she is widely remembered for hoisting the Indian National flag at the Gowalia Tank maidan, Bombay during the Quit India Movement in 1942. Post-independence, she remained active in politics, becoming Delhi's first Mayor. [36] Usha Mehta (25 March 1920 – 11 August 2000) was a Gandhian ...
Inherent in the study of women's history is the belief that more traditional recordings of history have minimised or ignored the contributions of women to different fields and the effect that historical events had on women as a whole; in this respect, women's history is often a form of historical revisionism, seeking to challenge or expand the ...
Also in 1925, the World Exposition of Women's Progress (the first women's world's fair) opened in Chicago. [228] In 1926, Gertrude Ederle , born in New York, became the first woman to swim across the English channel, arriving in almost two hours less time than any of the men who had swum across before her. [ 229 ]
Historians describe two waves of feminism in history: the first in the 19 th century, growing out of the anti-slavery movement, and the second, in the 1960s and 1970s. Women have made great ...
In the subsequent decades women's rights again became an important issue in the English-speaking world. By the 1960s the movement was called "feminism" or "women's liberation." Reformers wanted the same pay as men, equal rights in law, and the freedom to plan their families or not have children at all. Their efforts were met with mixed results ...
Century of Struggle: The Woman's Rights Movement in the United States. Harvard University Press. ISBN 0674106539. Echols, Alice (1990). Daring to Be Bad: Radical Feminism in America, 1967–1975. Rosen, Ruth (2006). The World Split Open: How the Modern Women's Movement Changed America. Penguin Publishing. ISBN 0670814628
First-wave feminism was a period of feminist activity and thought that occurred within the 19th and early 20th century throughout the world. It focused on legal issues, primarily on gaining women's suffrage (the right to vote). 1824: "Men and Women: Brief Hypothesis Concerning the Difference in their Genius" published by John Neal [3]
Oregon: Married women are given the right to own and manage property in their own name during the incapacity of their spouse. [4] 1859. Kansas: Married Women's Property Act grants married women separate economy. [13] 1860. New York's Married Women's Property Act of 1860 passes. [18] Married women are granted the right to control their own ...