TheWomensMovementPPT学习课件学习课程

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页/共13页第一页，编辑于星期日：点 二十一分。 The history of feminist movements has been divided into three waves by feminist scholars. Each deals with different

3、 aspects of the same feminist issues.History 第2页/共13页第二页，编辑于星期日：点 二十一分。The first waveThe second wave The third wave第3页/共13页第三页，编辑于星期日：点 二十一分。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 a

4、s Virginia Woolf are associated with the ideas of the 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 o

5、f society by acting as mirrors to men. She recognizes the social constructs that restrict women in society and uses literature to contextualize it for other women.第4页/共13页第四页，编辑于星期日：点 二十一分。The second wave The second wave (1960s-1980s) was concerned with gender inequality in laws and culture. It buil

6、t on what had been achieved in the first wave, and began adapting the ideas 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 h

7、ousehold or at work, but also their sexuality. Beauvoir set the tone for later feminist theory.第5页/共13页第五页，编辑于星期日：点 二十一分。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 back

8、lash against initiatives and movements created by second-wave feminism, the third was less 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

9、6页/共13页第六页，编辑于星期日：点 二十一分。InfluencesSocial changesReligionLanguageEducation 第7页/共13页第七页，编辑于星期日：点 二十一分。Social changeswomens suffragethe 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

10、more equitable wages.第8页/共13页第八页，编辑于星期日：点 二十一分。Religion Feminist theology reconsiders the traditions, practices, texts, and theologies of religions from a feminist perspective.第9页/共13页第九页，编辑于星期日：点 二十一分。Language第10页/共13页第十页，编辑于星期日：点 二十一分。Education Coeducation: Most mens colleges in the United States adopted coeducation, often by merging with womens colleges.第11页/共13页第十一页，编辑于星期日：点 二十一分。 A series of short scenes depicting the evolution of womens rights and liberation in the 20th Century. Based on