This week I gained an understanding of the history of feminism and what it means. Feminism began in the early 19th and 20th century. During that time feminism started with the legal inequalities, and the women suffrage. Now between 1960s to 1980s feminism consisted of debates to include cultural inequalities and most importantly what role did the women have in their society during that time period. The second wave of feminist where basically in a battle with the third wave of feminist because they had different perspective of things. The second wave wanted to have equal rights and for discrimination to stop. Throughout the years us women did not have a say in anything, we didn’t have equal rights. We weren’t able to vote. We had to be at home cleaning taking care of our husbands and of the children, we didn’t have the right to get a job or to vote. During these times besides feminism there was also a mixture of racism too.