Although intellectuals and activists existed advocating the intelligence, dignity, and intrinsic potential of the female sex during the Enlightenment and epochs prior, true advancements in the acquisition of rights only began to occur as the dawn of the twentieth century broke when impassioned women initiated a battle for suffrage. Well over a century later, it cannot be said that the feminist movement fulfilled its objectives in our society and there is vast progress to be made despite the epic leaps that have been taken through years of toil. ... All key periods of feminist movements share c...

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Feminist Theories and Pedagogies The term feminist was not used in a lexicon of academe until 1970s, when women got involved as academics, although it had been used in the late nineteenth century as a political concept. ...

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