A Historical Investigation Of The Contemporary American Women's Movement

This thesis takes the contemporary American women's movement as the object of the exploration and puts it in the definite historical surrounding for studying and getting an idea .This article not only observes that the definite cultural background and cultural characteristics are indispensable elements of contemporary American women's movement, but also recognizes that the social and economic factors and the change of political atmosphere have made significant influence on women's movement. In addition ,this article also explores the contents and characteristics of this movement ,induces its existing issues and expounds its profound influence.This dissertation consists of four parts :â… . The historical retrospect of the American women's movement . This sector makes a brief retrospect of the history of the twice great scale movements in the USA history.â…¡. The searching for the reasons of the contemporary American women's movement . This part will mainly make a relatively comprehensive exploration on thought origins ,social and historical roots and direct causes.â…¢. The two great branches of the contemporary American women's movement .This part will discuss the main contents of women's rights movement and women's emancipation movement.â…£. The contents and influence of the contemporary American women's movement.This women's movement has four notable parts:1, The movement has much larger scale and much wider contents and much profounder influence.2, Women's rights movement and civil rights movement are closely combined.3, The major participants are middle class women.4, The theory work of this women's movement achieves a great success.