A Study Of Freddan 's Feminist Thought

Feminism is also called the feminist movement, feminist. From some initial feminism desire for social movement led by the liberation of women thought, eventually be able to develop to philosophy is not happen overnight, it is also accompanied by countless misunderstandings and dismissed. From early combined with anti-feudalism movement of the feminist movement, women’s pursuit of equal political rights with men late to begin to realize the differences between men and women, and also gradually see the liberation of female is not only the issue of women, it’s about to the liberation of mankind.Friedan’s feminist theory once presented a second wave of the feminist movement. From American women’s living situation and the theoretical perspective of liberal feminism, she believes that women have the same level’s rational and can be able to think like others,thus,they should enjoy freedom and equal rights as men can. The laws which discriminated against women should be abolished, men and women should be equal. She focus on women’s education, and at the same time,she encouraged more women to break the traditional roles through the dependence and to get into the broad public domain, to win economic independence. In the early thought of feminist, she called into the question of the feminine mystique,and revealed the unknown problem in women, therefore she advocated for women in the process of self-discovery. But, in the transition to her later thought,Friedan thought of her previous phase and she saw the heavy burden that was brought from with male standard as a reference to pursuit women’s target.so she began to put forward the importance of the family as a feminist new positions, limitations and potential of female power also got fully probe.Accordingly, Friedan used the beta model to solve the difficulties faced by a new generation of women. Friedan’s feminist thoughts also has great significance to the women’s liberation and development of our country. By studying Friedan’s thought, I realize that if Chinese women want to improve the quality of life and value, they should be mainly to improve their subject consciousness, to correct estimation and the evaluation of themselves, liberated from the shackles of traditional gender bias. As the external factors of society also need to encourage women to promote the cooperation with men,only can man and women collaborate with each other,the target of achieving the free and comprehensive development of human beings could come true.The main character of this paper,Betty Friedan, whose ideology of liberal feminism was through a similar process, however,the domestic research on Friedan is not much, the resources is limited, thus,the author hopes that through the reduction can get more in-depth analysis of Friedan feminist philosophy essence and find the idea of deep place.At the same time, by comparing with Marxist feminist ideology and exploring the outlet of Chinese women’s liberation, which could provide a possible paths for the long-term goals of the Chinese women’s liberation.