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Liberal feminism is also known as firstwave feminism. Its central features still form the bedrock of most forms of feminism today.
One of the early expressions of liberal feminism was Mary Wollstonecraft’s 1792 work, A Vindication of the Rights of Woman. This seminal work created the intellectual framework within which later feminists developed their ideas. In the nineteenth and twentieth centuries a series of thinkers from John Stuart Mill through to the Pankhurst sisters took up the torch of liberal feminism.
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