Although intellectuals and activists existed advocating the intelligence, dignity, and intrinsic potential of the female sex during the Enlightenment and epochs prior, true advancements in the acquisition of rights only began to occur as the dawn of the twentieth century broke when impassioned women initiated a battle for suffrage. ... Picketing and hunger strikes were some tactics implemented as women's yearning for equal opportunities was voiced. This was not the most inclusive or progressive movement as it occurred within a period where women were truly second-class citizens without ri...

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According both Webster and Cambridge dictionaries, Feminism is a collection of movements and ideologies that share the same aim - to define, defend and establish equal rights and opportunities for women within political, social, economical and cultural spheres of life. ... In general, a feminist self-defines as advocating for or supporting the rights and quality of women. Feminists can be anyone in the population, i.e. men, women, boys or girls - in other words a revolution that includes women and men who wish the world to be equal without boundaries. ...

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For example, articles 25 of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Right [ICCPR] sets out the formulations of the right: every citizen shall have the right and opportunity (a) to take part in the conduct of public affairs, directly of through freely chosen representatives and (b) to vote and be elected at genuine periodic elections which shall be by universal and equal suffrage and shall be held by secret ballot, guaranteeing the free expansion of the will of the electors 1 As considering that masculinity's view of democracy solely emphasizes civil and political right which ca...

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