The Womens MovementPPT學(xué)習(xí)課件PPT課件

1、Introduction The feminist movement (also known as the Womens Movement, Womens Liberation, or Womens Lib), refers to a series of campaigns for reforms on issues such as reproductive rights, domestic violence, maternity leave, equal pay, womens suffrage, sexual harassment and sexual violence. The move

2、ments priorities vary among nations and communities and range from opposition to female genital mutilation in one country or to the glass ceiling in another. 第1頁/共13頁 The history of feminist movements has been divided into three waves by feminist scholars. Each deals with different aspects of the sa

3、me feminist issues.History 第2頁/共13頁The first waveThe second wave The third wave第3頁/共13頁The first wave The first wave refers to the feminist movement of the 19th through early 20th centuries, which dealt mainly with womens suffrage. Writers such as Virginia Woolf are associated with the ideas of the

4、first wave of feminism. In her book A Room of Ones Own, Woolf describes how men socially and psychically dominate women. The argument of the book is that women are simultaneously victims of themselves as well as victims of men and are upholders of society by acting as mirrors to men. She recognizes

5、the social constructs that restrict women in society and uses literature to contextualize it for other women.第4頁/共13頁The second wave The second wave (1960s-1980s) was concerned with gender inequality in laws and culture. It built on what had been achieved in the first wave, and began adapting the id

6、eas to America. Simone de Beauvoir is associated with this wave because of her idea of women as the other. This idea was touched on in the writing of Woolf, and was adapted to apply not only to the gender roles of women in the household or at work, but also their sexuality. Beauvoir set the tone for

7、 later feminist theory.第5頁/共13頁The third wave In the early 1990s, the third wave of feminism, arose in response to the perceived failures of the second wave feminism. In addition to being a response to the backlash against initiatives and movements created by second-wave feminism, the third was less

8、 reactive, and had a greater focus on developing the different achievements of women in America. Though criticized as merely a continuation of the second wave, the third wave made its own unique contributions.第6頁/共13頁InfluencesSocial changesReligionLanguageEducation 第7頁/共13頁Social changeswomens suff

9、ragethe right to initiate divorce proceedings and no fault divorce the right of to make individual decisions regarding pregnancy the right to own propertybroad employment at more equitable wages.第8頁/共13頁Religion Feminist theology reconsiders the traditions, practices, texts, and theologies of religions from a feminist perspective.第9頁/共13頁Language第10頁/共13頁Education Coeducation: Most mens colleges in the United States adopted coeducation, often by merging with womens colleges.第11頁/共13頁 A series of short scenes depicting the evolution of womens rights and liberation in t