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First-wave feminism was a period of feminist activity, that occurred within the time period of the 19th and early 20th century throughout the world, particularly in the United Kingdom, Canada, the Netherlands and the United States. It focused on legal issues, primarily on gaining women's suffrage (the right to vote). The term ''first-wave'' was coined in March 1968 by Marsha Lear writing in ''The New York Times Magazine'', who at the same time also used the term "second-wave feminism".〔(First Wave Feminism | BCC Feminist Philosophy )〕 At that time, the women's movement was focused on ''de facto'' (unofficial) inequalities, which it wished to distinguish from the objectives of the earlier feminists. ==Origins== According to Miriam Schneir, Simone de Beauvoir wrote that the first woman to "take up her pen in defense of her sex" was Christine de Pizan in the 15th century. Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa and Modesta di Pozzo di Forzi worked in the 16th century.〔 Marie Le Jars de Gournay, Anne Bradstreet and François Poullain de la Barre wrote in the 17th.〔 Mary Wollstonecraft published one of the first feminist treatises, ''A Vindication of the Rights of Woman'' (1792), in which she advocated the social and moral equality of the sexes, extending the work of her 1790 pamphlet, ''A Vindication of the Rights of Men''. Her later unfinished novel, ''Maria, or the Wrongs of Woman'', earned her considerable criticism as she discussed women's sexual desires. She died young, and her widower, the philosopher William Godwin, quickly wrote a memoir of her that, contrary to his intentions, destroyed her reputation for generations. Wollstonecraft is regarded as the grandmother of British feminism and her ideas shaped the thinking of the suffragettes, who campaigned for the women's vote. After generations of work, this was eventually achieved. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「First-wave feminism」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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