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Equality,Gender And Female Liberation

Posted on:2006-01-31Degree:MasterType:Thesis
Country:ChinaCandidate:Q HuangFull Text:PDF
GTID:2167360212482845Subject:Political Theory
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Feminism was a new devolvement of contemporary western political philosophy ,it is extremely diverse,in both premisses and conclusions. For many feminists, much of the most insidious exploitation and domination of women takes place in areas underneath the surface of formal political and economic relationships in society. Some focus more precisely, speaking of the essence of feminism being for women to attain'equal worth with men in respect to their common nature as a free person'. For others, feminism i'sa general critique of social relationships of sexual domination and subordination'or an'opposition to any form of social, personal or economic discrimination which women suffer because of their sex'.Feminism concerned to improve the condition of women and resist oppression, there are diverse schools of feminist thought which give very different analyses of this process.There emerged three waves in the development of Western Feminism .The first focused on women's basic rights such as on politics,education and job offer ;In the second waves,there existed Free Feminism,Socialist Feminism and Radical Feminism, which reached different conclusion on the origin, characteristic and elimination of Sexism; In the third period, with influence of Postmodenist discourse, Feminist theory shows more concern on both of diversity of female experience and necessity of the construction of female discourse.The article try to clarify historical sequence, theoretical essence ,methodological foundation ,contemporary influence and future tendency of the Political Philosophy Feminism , and comment on at basic of trying to analyzing thought of feminist historically.
Keywords/Search Tags:Western Feminism, equality, power, gender, Patriarchy, female liberation
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