FEMINISM

Feminism

Abstract

In this study I try to explore the concept of feminism in a holistic context. The main focus of the research is on “feminism” and its relation with rights of women. The research also analyzes many aspects of feminism and tries to gauge its effect on development of women. Finally the research describes various factors which are responsible for women's progress and tries to describe the overall effect of feminism on improving status of women.

Feminism

Introduction

God has created men and women equally. But variegated issues that exist in our society give unequal status to men and women. There are scores of instances that prove behavior of society which predict that women are inferior creature. Women always have been treated by society as an inferior being. Males have always dominated the society and have treated women as their subordinates. But, things have changed now. A woman of today's world knows her value. She is capable of doing anything to prove her mettle. The notion that women are slave to their men has been jettisoned now. With her studious effort and remarkable achievements women have achieved a status that demands respect and integrity.

Thesis statement

Feminism has achieved remarkable things and has greatly improved the quality of life for women - challenging the primitive and archaic notions that we have held for too long that have abused and oppressed women for ages.

Feminism

Feminism is the theory that implies that men and women should be treated equally from all facets of life i.e. politically, economically and socially. The term is most often associated to many different movements over the last two decades that have acted to execute this vision of equality by embracing it in law and throughout the culture. Feminism is the struggle for a new human identity. Feminism does not imply a break with the man as a human being but with the idea created through the story that the man is, by definition is superior and the woman is the other side of the mirror. Feminism is a philosophy that struggles for freedom. Feminism is also a new conception of the world as seen through the prism of women, a world where women coexist peacefully, without marginalization and oppression with men. In a nutshell this phenomenon can be described as a way of thinking that encourages gender fairness and equality, based on the principle that women are being deprived at the outset.

History of feminism

The first woman who used a pen to defend the woman was Christine de Pizan , who wrote “Letter to the god of love” in the fifteenth century. There are several examples of authors pre- enlightenment advocates for the rights of women, however, are not directly linked to modern feminism.

The word feminism is a relatively recent word that appeared in 1880 in France and in United States of America in 1919. These feminist movements began in late eighteenth century. There is no continuity exist between these movements and feminism today.

The defense of women before the age of enlightenment is called a ...