文档介绍：Early Western feminist literature on the impact of Western society
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The purpose of this paper is to understand the generation of western feminism and the influence of modern feminism. The history of feminism involves the story of feminist movements and of feminist thinkers. Feminists are "person[s] whose beliefs and behavior[s] are based on feminism." (The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language (Boston, Mass.: Houghton Mifflin, 3d ed. 1992 )) The first wave of the western feminism refers mainly to women's suffrage of movements of the 19th and early 20th. The feminist movement of the 1960s and 1970s fueled creative energies for many women writers. As the women's movement gained more acceptance, however, women wrote less in protest and more in affirmation. Only in the 1970s did other ethnic groups begin to find their literary voice. The writers there mostly effected by Toni Morrison and some of them won the Nobel Prize. They went through the Civil Rights Movement , the Anti-War Movement and Women's Liberation Movement and Gay Rights Activities, etc. And they gain some rights. For example, feminists are often proponents of using non-sexist language, using "Ms." to refer to both married and unmarried women. In the aspect of effect of social status, the increased entry of women into the workplace beginning in the 20th century has affected gender roles and th