being lit just ready to explode. The feminist movement had to be proclaimed no

different than the civil rights movement for blacks. The feminist movement was

a civil rights movement for women. This question has to be asked though, "Did

the feminist civil rights movement include all women like the civil rights

movement for blacks included all African-Americans?" Past feminism and popular

thought was guided in a way that itself was oppressive and exhibited traits of

dominance, in contradiction, new-age feminism and black feminism offer thought

that is committed to equality, mutual respect, and justice. When the feminist

movement began, it was a response to patriarch limiting what women could do.

Women wanted the right to be able to do anything a man has the right to do. An

example of one of the biggest rights women won was the right to vote, which

sparked a fire that had been waiting to grow. The main aim was to make women

the social equals of men. They focused on women overcoming fear of power. If

they wanted equality with men they needed to participate equally in the

operating system of power imbalances. When these women talked about the

oppression was in the area of family, ethnic minority women were more

After looking at some of the ways that past and popular feminism was dominant

change was needed and going to occur. The revolutionary change was labeling

race and class. It won much support and opened many women’s eyes. One

themselves to the roles that their men previously had, not necessarily acting

economical, social and cultural benefits as well as to take responsibility

of a homeplace, however fragile and tenuous (the slave hut, the wooden shack),

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