| During researching the historical development process of human society, Marx and Engels apply the essential method of Dialectical Materialism and Historical Materialism to research the change of women status,feminine question and their essential laws, indicate the way to feminine liberation. These essential viewpoints and ways lay a solid theoretical foundation that women of all countries struggle for their liberation.Each field of human society has fully developed with the continuous development of social productive forces. The past conflicts, such as contradiction of labour and capital,contradiction of class have been weaken, but there has been sexism since the private ownership of human society was brought. Sexism has still existed in each field of society life today, manifestation forms of sexism have changed with the development of society. There are many manifestation forms of sexism in realistic life, in same condition, employer give priority to hire workman and fire workwoman in labour market. In order to reduce the press of labour market and provide more chance of work for men, someone claim that let women go home. Countrywomen have been secondary place in society status and family life. Female image is objected in mass media and become the object of popular culture consumption.Researching difference of gender is that people pay close attention to problem of gender impartiality. As one of the most active society thoughts of western contemporary society, the feminism stemmed from feminine liberation movement. In the late of 20 century, the feminism developed a concept of value and a methodology principle of researching humane and social science , and it brought a revolution in the field of thoughts and culture of humanity. Gender is a central concept of Western Feminism, its definition is that people understand the difference between men and women because of social culture, the characters of group and manners of behavior that belong to masculinity or femininity have been affected by different social culture. Gender Perspective is the foundation of understanding different school of feminism, it overthrew the Biological Determinism that held domination station. Biology differences between men and women isn't the determinant that men and women are unequal, the factors of social environment is the key for causing inequality of men and women, it exploited a wider way to seek feminine liberation.According to the views of feminism, women suffered from the oppression of patriarchy, they have common interests in opposing patriarchy. The aim of feminism not only is theoretic but also is political, that is to say, they organized women to an especial class of revolutionary to enhance subject consciousness of feminine, researched the problem of gender to promote society to change. In the light of the developmental history and characters of feminism, feminism divided into many schools: Liberal feminism,Radical feminism,Socialism feminism,Postmodern feminism and Existential feminism, etc. These schools had different opinions, but their value of pursuing reached the same goal by different routes: they animadverted on patriarchy and strove for feminine to get more rights,resource and developmental room.As two theoretic embranchments about researching the problem of feminine, Marxism View of Women and Western Feminism had both differenceand relation. Marxism View of Women apply the world view and methodology of Dialectical Materialism and Historical Materialism to research the change of women status,women social role,women social rights and way to women liberation, etc, scientifically analyze and generalize the above problems. Western Feminism is a broad sense conception that it is a principle or viewpoint,a way or angle of analysis problems,movement and practice of women rights. Marxism View of Women was the theory headspring of Western Feminism to some extent, the positive outcome of Western Feminism has developed and enriched Marxism View of Women. Research of feminism in current...
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