Gender Studies · Concepts and theory. The idea in plain words, the rules to remember, the mistake to avoid and a worked example, written and checked by Mega Lecture.
The history of feminism is usually told in waves. The first wave, in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, sought legal equality: the vote, property rights and education. Its roots lie in Mary Wollstonecraft's argument of 1792 that women are rational beings who need equal education, and in the Seneca Falls Convention of 1848.
The second wave of the 1960s and 1970s moved to work, the family, sexuality and reproductive rights, under the slogan 'the personal is political'. Simone de Beauvoir and Betty Friedan supplied its main texts.
The third wave, from the 1990s, stressed that women differ by race, class and sexuality, so no single voice speaks for all.
Students give 1918 as the year British women won the vote equally with men. The 1918 law covered only women over 30 who met a property test; equal voting came in 1928.
Answer: No. 1918 was a partial victory; equal suffrage in Britain dates from 1928.
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