Milestone_Three_Speaker_Notes_.docx Milestone Three Southern New Hampshire University

Milestone_Three_Speaker_Notes_.docx  Milestone Three  Southern New Hampshire University   Milestone Three  What is the origin of the issue?  While it is common to see the word "feminist" used for figures such as Mary Wollstonecraft (1759“1797), the terms feminist and feminism were not used in the modern sense until a century after her 1792 book "A Vindication of the Rights of Women" was published.The term first appeared during the 1870s in France as féminisme”although there has been some speculation that it may have been used before then. At the time, the word referred to women's freedom or emancipation.In 1882, HubertineAuclert, a leading French feminist and a campaigner for women's suffrage, used the term féministe to describe herself and others working for women's freedom. In 1892, a congress in Paris was described as "feminist." This launched a more widespread adoption of the term in the 1890s, with its use appearing in Great Britain and then America beginning about 1894.(Lewis, 2019). Feminism comprises several social, cultural and political movements, theories and moral philosophies concerned with gender inequalities and equal rights for women.(Encyclopedia, n.d.).  Feminism takes several forms in a variety of disciplines such as feminist geography, feminist history and feminist literary criticism. Feminism has changed aspects of Western society. Feminist political activists have been concerned with issues such as individual autonomy, political rights, social freedom, economic independence, abor