First Wave of Feminism

She once told me that being a feminist was “all about” being anti-men. Apparently, this feminist icon had never heard of feminism’s first-wave activists, women like Susan B. Anthony or Madeleine Albright, both of whom were feminist icons in their own right

I doubt Caroline Criado-Perez, who wrote Invisible women, knew of any woman as famous for her feminism as Anthony or Albright. But Anthony and Albright, as well as many others, were activists after the first wave of feminism. The second-wave movement was less about shifting social norms and more about pushing back against the male-dominated society of the 1970s. It was about getting women into positions of power. The most influential second-wave movement was the movement against rape: unlike the #MeToo movement, but also the movement against sexual violence

The most important members of the second-wave movement were not white women, however. Some of the most important people involved in the movement were black women from all over the world

The most famous black woman involved in the movement was activist and activist-poet, Audre Lorde. Lorde not only wrote eloquently about sexual assault and rape, but she also told the stories of women who had been forced to marry the men who raped them. She showed the pain and trauma of people who had been forced into marriages and inter-religious marriages.

American fundamentalist Christian movement also witnessed a rise in support for its movement during the second-wave.

Source : https://www.equalrainbows.com/first-wave-of-feminism/