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Lee, Theresa Man Ling. "Rethinking the Personal and the Political: Feminist Activism and Civic Engagement." Hypatia: A Journal of Feminist Philosophy 22, no. 4 (2007): 163-79. doi:10.2979/hyp.2007.22.4.163. </ref>
== One Movement, or Two? ==
Out of the groundbreaking ideology and theory from the late 1940s into the 1970s came the actual organization of women all over the United States and even the world. What came out of that important ideology though birthed two different opinions on how women should approach gaining equal rights. The first would be simply called ‘’Equal-rights feminism’’. Here, women sought equality among men in political and social spheres through legislation and trying to break ‘’the glass ceiling’’ in the working world. <ref>
LeGates, Marlene. In Their Time: A History of Feminism in Western Society. New York: Routledge, 2001, 347. </ref> The other would be called ‘’Radical Feminism’’. This type of feminism would spur those that believed that the patriarchal structure of society needed to be demolished and that women’s oppression was the root of all other oppressions. <ref>
LeGates, Marlene. In Their Time: A History of Feminism in Western Society. New York: Routledge, 2001, 357. </ref> Both take from the ideologies mentioned before and eventually these two types of feminism would merge and take important pieces of ideology in to the 21st century which we now call the ‘’Third Wave’’ of feminism. What separates the two different movements is the distinction between discrimination and oppression. Radical feminists would choose to focus on demolishing the patriarchal oppressive structures that they saw as over-arching all other oppressions. Another stark difference is the types of women who followed the two different ideologies. The equal-rights feminists were largely white, older in age, and most came from affluent backgrounds. Radical feminists were made up younger white affluent women, and minority women of all ages who were active in the Civil Rights movement as well. <ref>
LeGates, Marlene. In Their Time: A History of Feminism in Western Society. New York: Routledge, 2001, 352. </ref>
