FEMINIST THEORY

Feminism is the response to society’s assumptions that women should be second important to men. Until the emergence of feminism, women were treated almost as objects, passive agents in a male world.

The roots of the feminist movement extends back to the eighteenth century but the run of the suffragette movement to the which fought for the vote for women in the early part of the twenieth century and the land girls and other women who moved into many occupations during the second world war.