>>508662234 (OP)>>508662804>>508662804look up betty friedan. or maybe like mary wollstonecraft. the women's suffrage movement. look up first wave, second wave, third wave feminism and feminist intersectionalism/critical feminist theory. i feel like that should get you started down the path.
the women's suffrage movement and temperance movements were probably the main modern/20th century starting points but you can find all sorts of other threads going further back into history if you want. for example a lot of heterodox/heretical sects of Christianity (eg gnostics, bogomils, cathars etc) espoused gender attitudes we would think of as feminist, going back over 1000 years.
just one you might be interested in is the beghards/beguines
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beguines_and_Beghards
i'm particularly interested in this example bc they arose around the same time as proto-capitalism, back in the 13th-17th century, with guilds and city states and merchant classes and markets and banks which are at least roughly analogous to what we have today. so around taht same time you got these beghard/beguine religious communities of lay sisters/semi-monastic members who performed services for the community but largely lived in ways we would call feminist, which often brought them into conflict with authorities.
i think the example of beguines is interesting because it shows that resistance to the patriarchy has existed from the very beginnings of our current socioeconomic order. Power always frames itself as the default, the only possible way of ordering society. but it's always, invariably accompanied by a more egalitarian, non-hierarchical resistance. in the case of gender/sexuality relations, feminism has ALWAYS existed, it is nothing new.
and obviously non-western and indigenous societies have their own very rich histories and traditions as well, where some of the same dynamics have played out.
but that's probably not the answer you're looking for.