Early Feminist Thinkers Perspective

Feminism is a movement and an intellectual commitment that seeks justice for women. The term feminism has many different uses and its meanings are often contested. In the mid 1800s the term feminism was used to refer to the qualities of females, of it was not until after the first international women’s conference in Paris in 1892 that the being, following the French term feminists was used regularly in English for a belief in and advocacy of equal rights for women based on the idea.