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How Feminism started around the world?

How Feminism started around the world?                                                                                  Credits: The Atlantic demanding equality for all The history of feminism comprises the narrative (chronological and thematic) of the movements and ideologies which have aimed at equal rights for women. In short feminism means “equality” but feminists around the world have differed in causes, goals and intentions depending on time, culture and country most western feminist historians assert that all movements that work to obtain women’s rights should be considered feminist movements even when they did not apply the term to themselves. Some thinkers have sought to locate the roots of feminism in ancient Greece with Sappho (d.c 570 BCE) or the mediaeval world with Hildegard of Bingen (d.1179) or Christine de pisan (d.1434) certainly Olympes de Gouge (d.1791), Mary Wollstonecraft (d.1797) and Jane Austen (d.1817) are foremothers of the modern women’s movement. All of thes