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Feminist political thought is classified into three waves the first, second, and third. Each wave and the related theorists have different perspectives of feminism. The three waves occur at different times in history, and this is reflected in the main themes for each wave.
The first wave of feminism occurred in the late 19th to early 20th centuries, and the major theorists were John Stuart Mill and Simone de Beauvoir. In John Stuart Mill’s On the Subjection of Women, Mill’s opinion of the legal subordination of women is morally wrong. “That the principle which regulates the existing social relations between the two sexes, the legal subordination of one sex to the other, is wrong in itself.”(Pg. 388) For Mill sexual inequality of women is

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