Feminism During The Enlightenment

Women in society have striven and fought valiantly to be esteemed as equal citizens. Having been oppressed by men since the earliest of times, the female population has had enough. They have protested to make their voices known because they want to be viewed as intelligent and necessary participants at every level of human society. Throughout the last century, women have been working diligently to encourage lawmakers to sign legal documents, so that they may not be discriminated against or looked upon as weak or inconsequential compared to man. Feminism, believed by some to be primarily a movement supporting sexual equilibrium, is also considered by many as women trying to wrest power from men because they feel irrelevant in society. Women’s

This movement of feminism is what guided the American and French Revolutions in the late 1800s. When feminists achieved suffrage, they were known as first-wave feminists, for they were the start of a new revolution. All women were included in the campaigning for women’s right to vote on political issues. In 1920, women officially achieved suffrage in the form of the Nineteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, which states, “The right of citizens to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any state on account of sex.” Because of feminism’s success as a movement, the 1960s was the birth of a different movement for feminism: education and on-the-job equality and laws overseeing child bondage and divorce. This new-and-improved wave of feminism was identified as second-wave feminism because it is comparable to some forms of equality as first-wave feminism, but differs due to the addition of furthermore equality. In the Roe V. Wade U.S. Supreme Court decision in 1973, women were granted the Constitutional right to shape their own decisions in regard to medical issues; that is, they were given the privilege to abort unwanted infants and legal access to birth control

Contrary to Biblical teachings, women have attempted to overpower man by the use of the following forces: civilization, science, discovery, and rationalism. Based on the Bible, women are to be silent in the church, and are not supposed to protest their God-given position in the family. Biblical doctrine also proposes how men and women should bring about themselves, and because of the sexual revolution’s annihilation of “old-fashioned values,” children of today are confronted with obfuscating preferences on how to land a serious relationship with a member of the opposite sex. Although confronted many times of their failures, recalcitrant feminists never surrendered, fighting through criticism while attempting to gain sexual equality