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19TH CENTURY The advent of the Reformist age during the 19th Century meant that those invisible minorities or marginalised majorities were to find a catalyst and a microcosm in such new tendencies of reform. Robert Owen , while asking for "social reorganisation", was laying down the bases of a new reformational background. One of those movements that took advantage of such new spirit was the feminist movement. Activists such as Emmeline Pankhurst were trying to show that British women needed more than a domestic servility. The stereotype of the Victorian gentle lady became unacceptable and even intolerable. TWENTIETH CENTURY World War I helped to advance the feminist cause, as women were much needed by the UK heavy industry at the time, and those working women became accustomed to their new-found economic independence. FURTHER READING
Barbara Bodichon founder of the women's right movement in England. SEE ALSO Mary Wollstonecraft |
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