Feminism 9 ALREADY PASSED

What is feminism? -is advocating women's rights is disturbing certainties of patriarchal structure is transforming society by eradicating sexist domination is sustaining poststructuralist and postmodern thinking is working and reading "against the grain" Early proto-feminism -Sappho in ancient Greece (570bc) Hildegard of Bingen - medieval, 1179 Christine de Pisan 1434 Olympe de Gouge 1791 Mary Wollstonecraft 1797 Jane Austen 1817 Sappho -(570 bc)Lyric poetry, most lost, except Ode to Aphrodite and the Tithonus poem Christine de Pisan -1434 A Venetian-born woman of the medieval era who strongly challenged misogyny and stereotypes prevalent in the male-dominated realm of the arts. Olympe de Gouges -1791 A proponent of democracy, she demanded the same rights for French women that French men were demanding for themselves. In her Declaration of the Rights of Woman and the Female Citizen (1791), she challenged the practice of male authority and the notion of male-female inequality. She lost her life to the guillotine due to her revolutionary ideas.