Feminism before and feminism now
After World War II, in most European countries and in some American countries, women had achieved the right to vote, so that was no longer the main objective. Of course, the right to vote was something that many feminists continued to fight in many countries, because in some parts of the world women could not vote until the eighties and, even in countries such as the United Arab Emirates, until 2006 and there are probably countriesWhere women can’t vote.
The so -called new feminism focuses on different axes:
- Redefinition of the concept of patriarchy
- The analysis of the origins of the oppression of women
- The sexual division of labor and domestic work
- The sexuality
- The reformulation of the separation of public and private spaces and the study of everyday life.
It is marked as a precursor to Simone de Beauvoir in his book "The Second Sex".
WOMEN IS NOT BORN: it becomes. No biological, psychic, economic destiny, defines the image that human female is in the bosom of society;The civilization as a whole elaborates this intermediate product between the male and the castrated that is usually described as feminine. Only foreign mediation can turn an individual into otherness. (The second sex, page 371).
Simone de Beauvoir defends that no one is born "woman" for that set of social conventions by which we identify that someone is a woman, because we understand and know that all women are flirtatious, sensitive, affectionate, dependent, etc.by the same society.
Today, there are people who believe that there are differences between men and women, of course, there are biological differences, but in relation to personality, there are the normal differences that exist between a human being and another that is not possible to encompass themFor sexes. It has already been shown that women and men can be equally intelligent and capable of a lot of jobs and professions.
And even in our present what Simone de Beauvoir said is in force. Of course, times change and evolve, however we continue to hear phrases like "men do not cry", "you behave like a woman", "women must be sensitive", "It’s a marimacho", "a beautiful woman smells like perfumeand not to cigar ". There is not only feminism, as many people seem to believe. There are currents for everyone’s taste and while some support one thing, others support another. From radical feminist, feminist in Europe, in Mexico, Muslim, Jewish and socialist feminist. The feminism of now is not one, there are many and are extended throughout the world.
Feminism changes, because the world changes. We cannot pretend that the feminism we see today is the same one that was starting two hundred years ago. Before they fought for the rights that, for most women, were more important at the moment. Today, many of those rights have been achieved in much of the world and it would not make sense to continue fighting for that. The problems in feminism have changed and feminism with him.
conclusion
It is not true when someone says that we already got what we wanted, we just have to turn and see around us that the gender difference still exists, stereotypes are still in our environment and women continue to be condemned for their way of dressing,If you choose their career about the family, in case they study a career that is "of men". The feminism of now aims to reduce the gender difference, seeks one thing;Equality between men and women. Feminism is not the opposite of machismo, it does not seek to establish matriarchy, a feminist does not hate men for being a feminist. And as always, you have to remember: say feminist does not make you better morally, or superior, or anything like that. It is not a fashion, or something for single to be noted.
Bibliography
- Board, Susan (2001). Feminism, Western culture and body. Journal of gender studies. The window, (14), 7-81.[Date of consultation June 9, 2020]. ISSN: 1405-9436. Available at: https: // www.Redalyc.org/article.OA?ID = 884/88412394003
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