Feminist Theory Of Postmodersm

Throughout the history, the perception of women and feminism is changing. These historical values shape the gender equality. Women obtain more rights, become more independent and less socially discriminated. These social changes brought us to the development of new postmodernist feminist theory. Postmodern feminism is very popular nowadays and it has three insights about feminism. First, explaining that it is not needed anymore. According to the postmodernist theory, feminism is no longer needed in the society nowadays, because women reached their goal. This theory is seen as a new era for female population, and a conception that woman have received the rights they deserved. For example, there are already many female politicians in the

This theory would replace unitary notions of woman and feminine gender identity with plural and complexly constructed conceptions of social identity, treating others, attending also to class, ethnicity, race, age, and sexual orientation. The feminist turn toward postmodernism was motivated precisely out of felt need for a deeper methodological critique of the roots of sexism and patriarchal assumptions in all existing domains of knowledge than an experiential-based feminism could provide. Many feminists are hostile to postmodernism, referring to it as a patriarchal tool. They say that postmodernism aims to silence women, at a time when they are better than ever before, are prepared for what to say. They hold that this political autonomy deficit, is in large part, due to the “gender system” or the patriarchal nature of inherited traditions and institutions, and that the women's movement should work to identify and remedy it. Women claim that there are no structures that can limit their potential and that the existing world, with all its injustice and inequality is not something inevitable. Everything can be changed — who we are, how we perceive ourselves and the world, is just something we have