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Contents
- Introduction
- 1. The religious roots of feminism
- 2. The beginning of secular feminism
- 3. The 18th century: Amazons of the pen
- 4. The early 19th century: reforming women
- 5. The late 19th century: campaigning women
- 6. Fighting for the vote: suffragists
- 7. Fighting for the vote: suffragettes
- 8. Early 20th-century feminism
- 9. Second-wave feminism: the late 20th century
- 10. Feminists across the world
- Afterword