Feminist waves and branches
Waves
First wave (19th-20th century)
Antiquity
Women in intellectual positions could already be seen in the Renaissance, but feminism started growing with the liberal ideas of the Enlightement
Olympe de Gouges and Mary Wollstonecraft were important feminist thinkers from the time of the French Revolution, since they started organizing the feminist movement after their writing didn't achieve much
The movement starts with peaceful demonstrations, asking for the right to vote, but after encoutering little success, uses more aggressive methods, which prove more successful
Emily Davison (1872-1913) died after throingw herself in front of King George's horse as protest. 
They also fought for the access to a better education and better treatment inside marriage and work
Some feminists such as Flora Tristan, Clara Zetkin, Emma Goldman and Alexandra Kollontai became socialists and anarchists demanding better working conditions
Second wave (1960-1980)
These women, such as Simone de Beauvoir, Carol Hanisch and Betty Friedan, question the meaning of femininity
Women were still mostly house wives, so the search for better working conditions and social rights was still going strong
Hanisch founded the radical feminist movement, which only allowed women to participate, since men could never really understand their problems
Other important radical feminists were Kate Millett and Shulamith Firestone
Third wave (1990-present)
The most diverse of the waves, dividing the movement into LGBTQ+, black rights, etc
Branches
Liberal feminism
In the US, the feminist movement allied itself with the abolitionist movement in the beginning, which helped creating the Black rights movement
Seeks to achieve complete equality with men
The pill was a major discussion topic during the second wave
Black feminism
See that the demands of black women are different from those of white women
Some important names are Angela Davis and Bell Hooks
LGBTQ+
Seeks to address the needs of lesbians, gays, transgender women, etc
Judith Butler spreads the idea that gender and biology are social constructs