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21 de may. de 2024 · I thought about that experience a lot while I was reading The Women by Kristin Hannah. This terrific novel tells the story of Frankie McGrath, an army nurse who serves two tours on the frontlines in Vietnam before returning home to a country rocked by protest and anti-war sentiment.
15 de may. de 2024 · Unlike the first wave of feminism, of the 19th and early 20th centuries, which focused primarily on securing women’s right to vote, the second wave lobbied for equality in all aspects of women’s experience, particularly in employment, politics, marriage and family, education, and sexuality.
Hace 4 días · First-wave feminism of the 19th and early 20th centuries focused on overturning legal inequalities, particularly addressing issues of women's suffrage. Second-wave feminism (1960s–1980s) broadened debate to include cultural inequalities, gender norms, and the role of women in society.
Hace 3 días · Buddhist feminism is a movement that seeks to improve the religious, legal, and social status of women within Buddhism. It is an aspect of feminist theology which seeks to advance and understand the equality of men and women morally, socially, spiritually, and in leadership from a Buddhist perspective.
Hace 3 días · A woman is an adult female human. Before adulthood, a woman is referred to as a girl (a female child or adolescent). Typically, women are of the female sex and inherit a pair of X chromosomes, one from each parent, and fertile women are capable of pregnancy and giving birth from puberty until menopause.
Hace 8 horas · The Women's Olympic Football Tournament Paris 2024 kicks off on 25 July. Twelve teams will take part in the competition. Busy May-June schedule awaits as teams fine-tune their preparations.
Hace 2 días · Gender history developed out of women’s history, which itself was a product of the feminist movement that began in the 1960s, for which one goal was to understand more about the lives of women in the past. Historians familiar with studying women increasingly began to discuss the ways in which systems of sexual differentiation ...
