Feminist Proposal To End The Oppression Of Women

Feminism is a proposal for social transformation as well as a movement that strives to end the oppression of women. In this double aspect feminism has always existed as part of the historical societies, in which it has developed, it has been influenced by the specific social, economic and political traits of its society. As a movement, feminism has a long history or rebellion, more or less organized but always expressing opposition to the social institution that made possible the inferiority of women. This opposition has not been isolated from the other forms of social struggle and this relationship has influenced both the ideology and the organization of the movement.

Charles Fourier, the French socialist argued that the degree of women’s

Accordingly they had therefore the same political right as men, and to deny this was an unacceptable tyranny. In practice he did not anticipate the widespread involvement of women in politics, but this he said, was no reason to deny them political rights in principle. Indeed, he argued that women could no more be biologically excluded from politics on ground of menstruation or pregnancy than could a men because he was suffering from

Gradually, organized feminism shifted from America to England and the thinking and discussion of feminism in the mid 19th century tended to concentrate in the writing of John Stuart Mill, his subjection of women was the most important writing on women’s position. His friend Harriet Taylor, whom he got married after she got widowed, was also a very strong feminist writer. Her Enfranchisement f Women is a most feminist move by a woman. At one leave, Mill’s the subjection of women, is simply an extension to women of the enlightened belief that an institution can be defended only if it is in accordance with reason.

Both Marx and Engels said production and reproduction as the base of the society, but on one of them gave the equal role of production and reproduction in the productive process. Marx believed that women Question is the product of capitalist economy. So Marxist society was based on materialistic interpretation, so the basic idea is that society will not be changed by appeals to reason and justice, but collective class struggle that can only succeed at a particular stage of economic and social