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

the work for their own liberation. It requires men understand that women

history of working alongside the men, on an equal status, during the years of

accommodations, equal access to government benefits, equal protection of the

out, no single group of women's views has the chance of being left out. This

considers the nature of sex-bias in a male-dominated culture. It honors

a hundred times more efficient. Society in general has undergone serious

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