The first wave of European feminism sought to fight for women's suffrage and liberal women's rights movements, while the second wave fought for women's emancipation and differential rights in society, and the third wave currently challenges both second wave feminism and patriarchy through a desire to embrace diversity and an idea of universal femininity. The main goal of the emerging Ukrainian feminist movements was to reveal the conditions endured by women in Ukrainian society. Ukrainian society has maintained, and continues to maintain, an emphasis on the political vision of national solidarity, prevalent also through feminist movements, and dominated by women's solidarity. In Ukraine, an exhibitionist feminist protest group called FEMEN challenges both what is seen as normative, actual feminist activism and patriarchy through new protest extremism that encourages topless protests. FEMEN is at the forefront of this movement in what is described as an attempt to reclaim women's bodies from patriarchal sexualisation. Desexualizing the female body was one of the many goals of second-wave European feminism of the early 1970s, made more widespread through the myth of the bra. burning. While feminists did not actually engage in bra burning, they did engage in various protests against the objectification of women in pageants and beauty competitions. By throwing “oppressive” gender artifacts, such as bras, girdles, false eyelashes, high heels, and makeup, into a garbage can in front of journalists, American feminist movements ignited the myth that has since become synonymous with feminist movements . of the most widespread forms of desexualization of perceived social opinions about women, is through u...... half of the paper ......d-femen-is-doing-it-wrong/Nelson, Sara. "Muslim women against women: Facebook group takes on activists in wake of Amina Tyler's topless jihad." Huffington Post UK.5 April 2013 Updated 10 April 2013.Web..
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