Feminisim Today

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Feminisim Today

The world today has changed in many aspects of gender related life style. Yet

there is an area of improvement in the focus of gender: based on labour and the

patriarchial working woman. The class society have a great impact on the

behaviour women carry out. The different theories and definitions help to

explain the relationship of the construction of the gender. Feminism has a great

impact on the gender role in our society. Feminists have been fighting for a long

time for power and control in this man's world. Our family structure creates a

great impact on women's behaviour in society, family life and the labour force.

All these titles focus on the relatonship of gender. Gender is best described the

construction of what is culturally assumed as "femininity"as well as

"masculiniity". Lesbian and gay male theory of a feminist is beyond the logic of

masculine/femine. It is also referred to the social and cultural categories of the

biological fact of human sex differentiation. Teresa de Lauretis uses this table:

(1) Gender is (a) representation-which is not to say that it does not have

concrete or real implications, both social and subjective, for the material life of

individuals. On the contrary, (2) The representation of gender is its construction

- and in the simplest sense it can be said that all of Western Art and high

culture is the engraving of the history of that construction. (3) The construction

of gender goes on as busily today as it did in earlier times, say the Victorian

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