Feminism in Europe
   Feminism in the U.S.
   The Feminist Movement in the United States
   THE FEMINIST MOVEMENT IN THE UNITED STATES
   English crown, female hopes for sexual equality were naturally high.
   EARLY FEMINISTS
   reached today. Shown here are three famous early feminists.
   (right) Mary Wollstonecraft (1759-1797) English feminist writer
   freeing of the slaves) were the first social concerns to which female
   to feminism were Lucretia Mott and Elizabeth Cady Stanton. They were
   applauded the feminists in his newspaper and appeared as a guest
   education became accessible to females. In the 1830's women's colleges
   and other formerly "male" fields of study. Feminists also began to
   conservative in discussing them. However, some "radical" feminists were
   Charlotte Perkins Gilman wrote a penetrating analysis of female
   Still, as feminists well knew, this victory was hardly enough, since
   far from over. The feminist movement therefore supported welfare
   feminists as "bolshevik dupes" and "communist conspirators" and accused
   proposed Amendment created dissent even within the feminist movement,
   It was not until the 1960's that feminism experienced another upsurge.
   implications of female subjection in Western culture. In 1963 Betty
   Friedan published The Feminine Mystique, openly criticizing the
   the U.S. Supreme Court in the feminists' favor. Moreover, Congress
   often it may fail, feminists are hopeful that the amendment will