21ST CENTURY WOMEN FICTION

21st Century Women Fiction



21st Century Women Fiction

Introduction

Feminism is generally thought of as political and / or social events, but it also includes the study of power in its various forms as it relates to women. It advocates critical inquiry into the more and less obvious mechanisms that provide power. One cannot state that feminism is a tendency advocating equality for women, because some feminists argue that standards of fairness developed by the department are based on the prohibition of female identity: The abstract ordinary citizen is presumed to be male. Feminist political science includes analysis of political action, institutions, movements, social change, and cultural practices, in addition to developing lens of, analyses to understand how power is distributed, redistributed, and challenged. Feminist political career has generally aimed at inclusion into the political process and advocated for transformations of governance and the policies of institutions so that they serve the interests of the community in its entirety.

Discussion

Feminism has proven to be particularly important for the field of political theory, as it points out how our ideas about femininity and masculinity have structured the opportunities available to and expectations for all human beings. More recently, feminist scholars have also taken feminist ethics and used them to critique standard conceptions of security. Security is frequently defined as a state's preventing harm to its citizens. Feminist scholars have argued that our notion of security needs to be expanded to incorporate all aspects of human needs. People need food and shelter, not necessarily stronger militaries, in order to be secure.Feminism recognizes how ideas and perceptions create the social world. One characteristic of feminism has been to develop a stronger linkage between theory and practice, seeing that challenging commonly held ideas can lead to changing practices, and that emerging practices can challenge wisdom (Lockwood, 40-80). For this reason, it is impossible to segregate feminist political theory and feminist political movements; they need to be considered in conjunction with one another. The development of new forms of critique has spurred feminist political action, and feminist political action has changed theoretical analytics of power (Humm, 278-285).

One of the oldest branches of feminism was developed in relationship to Marxist political thought, arguing that women as a group performed many of the unremunerated and underpaid tasks of the world. Tasks that are considered women's work, if paid a wage at all, are paid relatively poorly. Women ...