Feminism
By: Kaye Stearman
Series: Ideas of the modern world; Ideas of the modern world
Publisher: Hodder Wayland
Published: 2005
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 64
ISBN-13: 9780750243650
Subjects: Feminism; Juvenile literature
Description: Feminism means that women and girls should have equal human rights with men and boys, and equal roles and responsibilities in society. The past hundred years have seen the word 'feminism' enter the popular language and witnessed dramatic changes in the lives of women worldwide. Nevertheless it is still difficult to find societies where women and men are treated completely equally. This book looks at the history of feminism and communism have had on feminism. It looks at the growth of the Women's Liberation Movement and at the focus of feminism today.
Notes: Originally published: 2003.

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: What is feminism?; title: Raising the issues; title: Campaigning for the vote; title: The forgotten years of feminism; title: Feminism becomes women's liberation; title: I'm not a feminist but ...; title: Beijing and beyond.