the ones who thought that Britain would not be able to survive the depression if state didnt intervene and the ones who thought that state intervention wasnt needed. The unification of Italy was also based on a liberal theory. As was the fight for race and gender equality in Britain and America. The changes that each of theses causes brought to society was a step further into liberalism and into an equal society.Feminism is a movement for social, political and educational equality and change. Britain and America were seen as the pacesetters for feminism. This was because many other countries did not participate in the movement for equality until much later on in the 20th centuryFeminists campaigned for a vast variety of causes, from access to education, the right to obtain contraception or have an abortion. The right to have the vote is the main cause associated with feminism and was mainly seen as a political change, it was though developed from social struggle. This was because, since women did not have the right to vote they had no influence on common law, work related laws and contract laws to name but a few. It was thought that if this huge political struggle was won the perception of women as second class citizens would wane and equality prevail.The feminist movement can be traced back to the 18th century in the intellectual works of Mary Wollstonecraft. However before the late 19th century, social attitudes were not challenged in mass. In the late 1850s women were still held to be the inferior sex, dependant on their fathers and then their husbands in both Britain and America. In the 19th century the marital rate was very high. Approx. 87%of the British population wed and only 10% of women did not marry in America. This seems to reinforce the fact that it was very difficult for women to remain economically stable if not married. This was because since women were prevented form gaining a good education they could no...
