However, it is only comparatively recently that feminists have begun to raise the issue more generally within the women's liberation movement.
When feminists and others began deconstructing marriage, they lost sight of its fundamental meaning.
Many prominent 19th-century feminists had in fact begun their work as social reformers in the abolitionist cause.
Political activity had begun already in the early 1980s, when environmental activists, feminists and other active groups began to campaign on Green issues in Finland.
During the early 1970s, feminists began to engage in consciousness-raising efforts to educate the public about the reality of rape.
But here's a development above politics that is breathtaking in its cultural contradiction: feminists everywhere have begun to turn on the word female.
By the late 1960's, however, feminists had begun to question the value and symbolism of beauty pageants.
During the 1900s feminists began to protest this assumption.