Business Fit Magazine August 2017 Issue 1 | Page 34

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confidence and reliance on the energy of Feminine Capital.
The second, is an international event “Feminine Capital Forum”
presenting speakers & panels specialising on different areas of life
that empower women to embrace their femininity and men their
masculinity and break free to create a more sustainable society. The
forum gives inspirational awards to outstanding people, the first
successful event was in Cyprus last May and next one is coming soon.
The Waves of Feminism
When I invited my dear friend Guillermo Ricken to attend the Feminine
Capital Forum, he sent me his acceptance with this research (source:
Wikipedia):
“…Perhaps the most cited feminist writer of the time was Mary
Wollstonecraft, often characterized as the first feminist philosopher. A
Vindication of the Rights of Woman (1792) is one of the first works that
can unambiguously be called feminist. This book remains a foundation
stone of feminist thought. Wollstonecraft believed that both genders
contributed to inequality. She took women’s considerable power over
men for granted, and determined that both would require education
to ensure the necessary changes in social attitudes. 19th-century
feminists reacted to cultural inequities including the pernicious,
widespread acceptance of the Victorian image of women’s “proper”
role and “sphere.”[37] The Victorian ideal created a dichotomy of
“separate spheres” for men and women that was very clearly defined
in theory, though not always in reality. In this ideology, men were to
occupy the public sphere (the space of wage labor and politics) and
women the private sphere (the space of home and children).
The 19th- and early 20th-century feminist activity in the English-
speaking world that sought to win women’s suffrage, female
education rights, better working conditions, and abolition of gender
double standards is known as first-wave feminism.
“Second-wave feminism” identifies a period of feminist activity from
the early 1960s through the late 1980s that saw cultural and political
inequalities as inextricably linked. The movement encouraged women
to understand aspects of their personal lives as deeply politicized and
reflective of a sexist power structure. As first-wave feminists focused
on absolute rights such as suffrage, second-wave feminists focused
on other cultural equality issues, such as ending discrimination.
Third-wave feminism began in the early 1990s in response to what
young women perceived as failures of the second-wave. It also
responds to the backlash against the second-wave’s initiatives and
movements. Third-wave feminism seeks to challenge or avoid second-
wave “essentialist” definitions of femininity, which over-emphasized
the experiences of white, upper middle class women.
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