Article Review

Article Review

Introduction

This paper will discuss the two articles “African Feminisms: The Struggle Continues” by Guy-Sheftall and “Feminism, Empire, and the Fate of National Histories: The Case of Victorian Britain” by Burton. These articles discuss the important concept of feminism. 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.

Discussion

The first article African Feminisms: The Struggle Continues discusses the African concept of feminism and the problems that the women of Africa are facing. 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 (Shetfall, 2006 ). 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.

Lack of education is a major problem in promoting feminism. Feminism has caused many changes in some societies, including the African societies. Women's suffrage, equal employment, the ...