Theoretical Perspectives on Feminism and The Feminist Movement

The time is around 1800. Women wanted the right to vote and the right to have possession of things that they thought to be theirs. Jump ahead 150 years. The 19^th Amendment did precisely that, imposing a changed view on women's rights and the women's movement. Women since then have fought from sexual issues such as abortion to the family and home life. Feminism had been born. Theories and countless essays were created in the light of these subjects, thrusting feminism into the minds of women. Many views on feminism today, I believe, were born from a handful of decades ago. Faludi worked on this aspect in her work. Starting with the mass media in the 1960's, the major publications either did not cover the women's movement or manipulated it to their liking. When the next decade came, the overarching decision was to neutralize or market feminism. Next was the 1980's, which fought against the feminist movement. Feminism was discredited. Feminism was dead.