The Possession of a Preoccupied Mind

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Hey, how you doin'?  No, I am not rewatching Friends for the zillionth time.  It's just that I hate to start traditionally.  I'm in a conflicting situation: some of my readers like my conversational tone, but apparently it isn't quite acceptable to the publication agencies. Two of my best-appreciated stories were rejected because of their tone. The rejection felt like a jolt that I could practically feel in my head, especially the second one.  Since that day, I've been caught up in a vicious loop of boredom because I stopped writing anything new.   I also called off a new transcription gig that promised me some good money, but the client was a tad bit of a scoundrel in his behaviour.  So here I am, having voluntarily stepped away from both writing and work, and somehow managing to be bored out of my mind. Pretty efficient, ain't I? I'm in that peculiar state where I don't want to do anything to kill time, yet somehow want the time to pass joyfully. I ...
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DEFINIG FEMINISM : SOME KEY POINTS

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FEMINISM 

Definition

It is a socio-political movement which advocates for the equal political, social and economical rights for women and seeks to dismantle the patriarchal structure of the society.

Ø  It began in the 18th century Europe with the publication of Mary Wollstonecraft’s A Vindication of the Rights of Women (1792)

Assumptions

Ø  Sex- It is the determination of identity on the basis of biological category.

Ø  Gender- It is the cultural meaning attached to sexual identity.

Ø  Gender is the product of cultural conditioning.

Ø  Gender roles are constructed by society and culture. These roles are not natural but social, created by the male for domination.

Ø  Instances of such cultural conditioning can even be seen in language where the female counterpart words of male like mister and bachelor have derogatory meanings such as mistress and spinster respectively.

Ø  The social and cultural structure convinces that women are destined to play a subordinate role in every aspect of life.

Arguments

Ø  Women are represented as weak, innocent, irrational and emotional. Therefore, they are deprived to have the equal social, political and economical power as compared to men.

Ø  Women are treated as a reproductive machine.

Ø  Feminism aims at analyzing the structure of gender relation between men and women to establish equality among them.

The 3 waves of Feminism

The development of feminism can be traced in the form of 3 waves.

1st wave

Ø  The time period ranges approximately from 1792 to 1949.

Ø  Officially started in 1848 with the Seneca fall conventions.

Ø  It was a meeting attended by many men and women to speak in favor of equal rights for both men and women.

Ø  It was focused on the voting rights of women.

Ø  Virginia Woolf’s A Room of its Own (1929) is one the most important work to be written during the 1st wave of feminism.

2nd wave

Ø  The time period ranges approximately from 1949 to 1980.

Ø  Betty Friedan’s The Feminine Mystique (1963) established a landmark for it.

Ø  This produced two types of feminist groups:-

        i.            Liberal feminist group – aims at the demolition of discrimination and establishment of equality.

       ii.            Radical feminist group – with a shifted focus from discrimination to oppression which aimed to remove every patriarchal value of oppression.

 

Ø  The publication of Simone de Beauvoir’s The Second Sex (1949) considered to be the starting point of the second wave of feminism.

3rd wave

Ø  The time period ranges approximately from 1980 to present.

Ø  The third wave of feminism arises as a response to perceived failure of the second wave of feminism.

Ø  The 3rd wave resists or objects to the limited interests of the 2nd wave feminism.

Ø  2nd wave of feminism only represents the problems of middle-class heterosexual white women thus being very limiting in its approach.

Ø  The 3rd wave includes women as a whole be it of any sexual orientation or of any race.

Types of Feminism

There are 5 major types of feminism viz.

Ø  Liberal feminism - aims at the structural change of the society i.e the demolition of every discrimination faced by women so that they could enjoy all their fundamental rights.

Ø  Radical feminism - aims at the elimination of the entire concept of gender from the society so that there will be no sense of superiority or inferiority between men and women.

Ø  Socialist feminism - opposes the ideas of radical feminism that the inequalities women in the society are solely based on gender. It says that the financial dependence of women on men is the cause of inequalities between them. It aims at the financial independence of women in the society.

Ø  Cultural feminism - It advocates for the encouragement of the feminine qualities of women such as the kindness and the gentleness of women instead of the masculinity of men for the world to be a better place.

Ø  Eco-feminism - It is a socio-political movement that connects feminism and environmentalism. They relate the passivity of female with that of the environment. Like man exploits the environment for its benefit, women too are being exploited by men for their benefit, for their success and for their pleasure.

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