Feminist Criticism In Using The Vindication Of Women's Right And The Awakening?

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When exploring deeply constructed ideologies and movements one must rely on the words and the events of the past. Feminist philosophy or moreover feminism is a movement that has always existed in a number of forms. Any feminine or masculine figure who clearly denounces separatism among the sexes, whether they claim or not, is a feminist. What is feminism and why is it a massive and powerful concept? It is a movement, movements are meant to shape and create a new way of thinking and a new way of life. There are always those who support, fight against, or simply do not understand what feminism is. The argument at hand is why is it called feminism if it stands for the equality of sexes socially, politically, and economically? Could this be categorized …show more content…

Using The Vindication of Women’s Right and The Awakening (which was used in the second feminist movement) each adequately revisit a time of female depravity and discovered liberation. What the feminist movement really reflects is a continuous carom of questions women have never been able to answer or never been able to ask: why are women not equal with men? And why are women sexualized because of men? “…all females are vulnerable, socialised to be compliant and paralysed to offer any resistance” Women do not chose to be these vulnerable, untouchable creatures that men cannot understand; they are instead perceived that way. “Sexual assault is an extension of the current legal, social, economic and political systems in which we live which manifest and reinforce male dominance over women and …show more content…

Women could be better citizen, human beings, and especially mothers to the children they have or the children to come. “Strengthen the female mind by enlarging it, and there will be an end to blind obedience.” Wollstonecraft uses her specific style to manipulate her reading audience, which are men. She wants them imagine a world, an America, where women can stand in equilibrium with a man but not be inferior to him as many men feel would be the consequence. ““The man who can be contented to live with a pretty and useful companion who has no mind has lost in voluptuous gratifications a taste for more refined pleasures; he has never felt the calm and refreshing satisfaction. . . .of being loved by someone who could understand him.” The equality of the sexes could be a benefice for marriage, for nurturing, for society, in writing these proclamations, Wollstonecraft wants to persuade men into believing that a woman deserves her rights, that she comparably requires what men do, too, and that in receiving these opportunities can guarantee higher success for the future. “It is vain to expect virtue from women till they are in some degree independent of

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