"Fundamentally, feminism is concerned with the advancement and achievement of equal social and political rights for women, and the fight against sexism. Feminism challenges many traditional, patriarchal assumptions about the different behaviours expected from men and women and the assignment of social roles and status that rests on them; and what it perceives as a widespread devaluing of women's attributes, experiences and perspectives."
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Figure 1: Marc Nozell. (2019). Intersectional feminism is the only feminism. [Photograph]. Flickr Archive. Retrieved from https://www.flickr.com/photos/marcn/46805130191
Figure 2: Averill, P., Guardian, A. & Guardian, S. When Women Become Massively Political, the Revolution Will Have Moved to a New Level. , None. [Between 1976 and 1980] [Photograph] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/2015648077/
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