Feminist Perspectives

Olympe de Gouges can be considered as the pioneer feminism advocate. Her famous work “Declaration of the Rights of Woman and the Female Citizen” (DRWFC) in 1791 was highly controversial. Her work propagated to place women at the centre of politics and society alongside with men. This was highly contentious as women had been subservient to men for much of history. Her work was grounded in the Enlightenment ideas of thinkers such as Diderot, Voltaire, and Montesquieu who questioned the unequal treatment of women (Racz 1952, 151).

Another activist, Hiratsuka Raicho, was one of the leaders of the movement that aimed at re establishment of the women’s participation in politics and challenged the accepted gender norms by questioning the male privilege scientifically through the use of eugenics (Otsubo, 225). First, in spite of the restriction she still found the way to situate the movement in the politics. Secondly, she attempted to participate in the very creation of the gender normatives by asserting the “unfitness” of

The push for equal right by feminists materialized in two accords: legally and socially. Legally, feminists pushed for equal legal status for both men and women. Social women liberation was a sexual revolution where women challenged the idea that while men could go around participating in sexual activities, they were to remain chaste. Today, it is the former that is popular, with women activist groups fighting for more opportunities for women. Women right activist groups today, however, are very politically alienated as compared to the 1960s.

1. The unequal power between men and women is the basis of feminist criminology. Advocates of feminist criminology claim that the cause of female criminal behavior is due to the unequal amount of wealth, political, economic, and social power. Radical criminologists also support conflict theories, class, and power inequality as causes of crime. They point to research indicating that in the criminal justice system, the poor, minorities, and women are not treated equally.

Feminists in particular, strongly believe that the women’s movement has provided more positive impacts in society. Revolutionary feminists theorist such as Betty Friedan and Shulamith Firestone assert that the movement challenges the stereotypical gender roles in society and it is for this reason why people, particularly men, believe that it undermines the stability of marriage and family life. While we won’t deny that the women’s movement afforded many women rights, we cannot ignore the fact that it is some of these very reasons (divorce laws e.g.) that has caused breakdown in many families across the

For instance, rape cases. There are a lot of rase cases happen and the victims are mostly women and this makes me agree to the feminist critiques of international human rights which says feminist sees that men dominate the authority of human rights, here the feminist claims that men are holding human rights, and women are not. The author of the journal, however, does not seem defending cultural relativist or feminist. The author seems neutral.

She guessed rising crime rates for women resulted in the success of the women’s liberation movement. Merton has a couple of different theories, one of the famous ones is the Anormie Theory. Merton changed the concept of the original theory to refer to a situation in which there is an apparent lack of fit between the culture 's norms about what constitutes success in life and the culture 's norms about the appropriate ways to achieve those goals. Adler´s theory and Merton´s theory are different because for one Adler´s theory focuses more on women and their thirst for crime more than Merton´s does. Adler´s theory has similar thoughts that I would have towards the women doing crime topic.

If we take a look at the religious perspective, like Islam for example, it has limitation right for women. It is said that equality does not imply same rights. (Bennett, 2010) This is the cause of feminist theory explores the imbalance in gender relations and gender constitution. The feminist critique rise caused by men and male perspectives, reproducing hierarchies based on gendered assumptions (Charlesworth, 2000).

This article talks about feminist theory. It not only addresses the difference in male and female violence, but also how there really isn’t an explanation for the rises in female juvenile violence, and how that many of these explanations going around, in society, are driven by an anti-feminist philosophy. Feminist theory is the extension of feminism. It focuses on evaluating the means of gender inequality. Some things explored in feminism include objectification, stereotyping, and discrimination.

With the latter two categories not in favour of equality then the only remaining category, if you are in favour of equality, is feminism. Misandrist feminist beliefs have negative ideas that men should suffer for their past suppression of women. This deters many people from labeling themselves as feminists. Sandra Kim addresses this in her article “How Most Things You Know About Feminists Are Vicious Conservative Lies”: Misrepresentations of feminism are so powerful that many progressives and liberals today don’t necessarily want to self-identify as a feminist even when they believe in what feminism stands for. They don’t want women or anyone else to be abused, raped, exploited and discriminated against.

An issue I am passionate about is… …feminism. I believe that there is a common misconception, particularly by men, that once voting rights for women were established, feminism was no longer necessary. Unfortunately though, that is definitely not the case. Women still make less money than men for the same jobs, sexual assault cases are way too frequent, and women are underrepresented in almost every professional field.