Feminism, By Kenneth Allan

What is feminism? The definition is often argued over by feminists and anti-feminists. Feminists believe that the expectations for women are far too high to be attainable for most—they are expected to be the perfect weight, the perfect height, the perfect everything in the eyes of society in order to be seen as worth anything. Feminists believe that women are seen by society as less powerful, less smart, simply less than men. Feminists also believe that feminism promotes gender equality, not misandry. They aim to fix this. Anti-feminists, on the other hand believe that feminism is women being obnoxious and putting themselves above men. They think feminism in 2015 in unnecessary. Women already have the right to vote, what more could they possibly want? This oppression is just one reason why feminism exists and—in my opinion—is extremely important in today’s world.

Feminism is known as the advocacy of women’s rights on the basis of the equality of the sexes. Women have fought for equal education, economic, and political opportunities for years. Feminism originated when “capitalism,

Feminism is a collection of movements that share a common goal; to define, establish and defend equal, economic, cultural and social rights for women. Feminist activist campaign for women's rights like contract law, voting and property, while at the same time promoting bodily integrity and autonomy and reproductive rights for women. Feminist work to protect women and girls for domestic violence, sexual harassment and sexual assault. Feminist also advocate for equal rights in the workplace in conjunction with maternity leave and equal pay.

Before feminism, an American woman 's life was like a prison. A woman could be forced to stay at home, abused mentally and physically, and had no rights in the eyes of the law. In the 19th century, the first feminist convention was permitted: the Seneca Falls convention for women’s advocates in New York. The convention was held by Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Lucretia Mott. These women addressed the idea of improving the rights of women. Accomplishing the overall idea, sixty-eight women and thirty-two men signed the Declaration of Sentiments, the document that outlines the grievances and the agenda for the Woman’s Rights Movement. Involved was a set of eleven resolutions calling for equal treatment of women under the law and voting rights

The problem with this approach is that it depends upon a view of feminism that does not cut across racial and class lines, and ignores the societal impact of the normalization of sex work. Liberal feminism is, due to this, a fundamentally exclusionary philosophy. Cheryl Butler, in her essay applying critical race feminism to the question of the sex trade and sex trafficking in America, reveals the holes in liberal feminist theory. She specifically calls out how “liberal feminist perspectives on prostitution have focused on… the need to protect the rights of women to choose prostitution,” and, in doing so, ignore “how racism and other factors obscure choice for women of color in the United States.” According to Butler, discussions about

Feminism is most often thought of as a method used for educating society on the rights of women. It teaches that men and women are equal in every way both civil and societal. Charlotte Bunch, realizing that this is not always the case, also defined feminism as "a way of looking at the world a questioning of power and domination issues". A great deal of feminists attempt to ignore the ideas of a stereotypical women and move them away from people who don’t. They fight to find, study, and do away with biases in a world filled with ignorant men who see women only as objects and not equals. There are however, women who announce their immense intellect, wealth, and vibrant and free personalities to those who oppress them. A woman

In Surfacing by Margaret Atwood, there are numerous portrayals of feminism and gender roles. There are underlying hints of distaste towards the female sex role and the predatory, aggressive behaviour of men towards women. The suppression of women is portrayed and analyzed, and Surfacing manages to tackle the theme of gender roles by exploring through the perspective of the female narrator how women are marginalized in many aspects of their lives. . Surfacing makes a case for strong women that defy stereotypical gender roles and portrays how men are continually pushing the boundaries of their roles and going to the extreme with them.

Let’s begin with what feminism really is. Feminist theory, according to my first literary criticism, by Haiyan Gao, is to achieve gender equality in all of humanity. “All feminist theory has a basic premise, which is, women worldwide are under an oppression, discrimination, and hierarchy state. In such a social structure prevalent among women in the political, economic, cultural, ideological, knowledge, ideas, ethics and other fields are in an unequal position with men, even in a private sphere of family, women are also in a position of inequality with men. Feminism

Now, Feminism is one of the most discussed and debated upon topics in the world today and before I begin we must first know what the meaning of Feminism is. Feminism is not the belief that one gender should be raised in power above another but is the belief in the social, political, and economic equality of the sexes. Basically, Feminist activism is the struggle for that equality. With Feminism, there are some core beliefs and some of them are the existence of sexism and it being against women, Men and Women should have equal rights and opportunities, Women are intellectual equals and social equals to men, and finally Women should be recognized and treated as equal to men.

Feminism is the idea that woman are equally the same as men politically, socially, and economically. During the 1900’s feminism was unheard of at the time but Kate Chopin an American author who was widely known for her short stories and novels challenged that idea. Chopin would have her characters test the way society viewed women and have them embrace those feminist ideals despite Chopin killing off her main characters. Because of this there was very little her editors could do without angering her readers. In modern day society we do not judge so easily like we did before; if an un-happy wife is suddenly widowed, becomes rich, and lives happily ever after it is totally accepted because society is more progressive than it was in the 19th century.

Feminist in America are striving towards equality and trying to remove all negativity and discrimination and be heard. Equality in feminism is a subset of the overall feminist movement that focuses on the basic similarities between men and women, and whose ultimate goal is the equality of the sexes in all domains. For example, Mary Wollstonecraft was an English writer, philosopher, and advocate of women's rights, who believed in equality and women's rights and she wrote on her beliefs to get the message out there. When feminist think of equality, they are thinking of equal rights, women’s being able to vote, women being able to work the same jobs as

What is Feminism? According to the English Dictionary, Feminism is a doctrine advocating social, political, and economic equality for all sexes. For the last 100 years men and women had fought tirelessly for equality of the sexes. The Women’s Liberation Movement, also known as the Feminist Movement made aggressive changes in the history of women oppression in society. This is now bone of my bones, and flesh of my flesh, she shall be called a women, so God created man in his own image. “Genesis 1:26-27. Aristotle states “the female is female by virtue of certain lack of qualities”. Friedrich Nietzsche, a German philosopher says “Women are God’s second mistake.” Since the beginning of creation women had been view as inferior to men. All of these men believe that a woman needs to be protected at all times. Once she born her father must protect her, and at the beginning of womanhood she must marry and be protected by her husband. These ideologies are the foundation of women oppression. Men and women around the world fought through different campaigns for reform on various issues such as political and property right, sexual and reproductive right, and rights economic independences and political power.

Mankind throughout the history has been cruel to women for far too long, women, for example have been deprived off of participation in various activities in a mostly patriarchal societies where in male members of the society have the final say pertaining to the issues affecting the society there by women can only sit down and look. The book described the modern feminism as a product of the enlightenment, and 18th century feminists argued that women were secluded from the public realm, whereas they were well equipped to compete on equal terms with men. These idea in most of the time has been interpreted as the idea behind the subjugation of women by men is just a so called idea of womanhood that women are only supposed to be housekeepers, taking care of the domestic routines that includes, the flowing: cooking, laundry, feeding the kids, make sure their assignments are done, women also has to fold laundry and iron them all by herself as inferior beings to man. To some feminist, these ideas were merely to dominate women and make them feel worthless when it comes to education, politics, things that affects their own surroundings and things that matter the most. These system of biasness against women, have been in practice for so long and still continue to be a norm even in some democracies where certain individuals feel the need that they can control or decide what their female spouses should do. Its worst in mostly undemocratic and overly religious countries

In today’s society, feminism has received a rather negative connotation and very often misused. If one is a feminist, she is considered an angry, man hating woman, but where has this idea stemmed from? Feminism is the advocacy of women’s rights to be equal in political, economic and social standings. In simplicity, feminism is the assertion of women’s equality. Many women believe in feminism and support it, including Jane Austen, the author of Pride and Prejudice. Feminism is a prevalent and recurring theme throughout Pride and Prejudice.

Much of those feminist ideas were based on those ‘rights of man’, which were the basis for the French and American Revolution. The lack of these rights also set limitations for women at this time period and prohibited them from establishing any public legal existence. Other roles were left for women to assume. These “roles” which were established as a result of urbanization and industrialization include domestic positions in the home and/or certain positions in the work force that were characterized by service work and low wages. Just as feminist theory includes a description of what in all actuality exists, what can exist, and a strategy, those liberal and social feminist writers such as Mary Wollstonecraft put these steps into play through huge efforts to put out conscious raising discourse on the issues. Wollstonecraft stated: