Feminism During The American And French Revolution

Feminism The concept of feminism has been around for a long time. However, the issue hadn't prominently came up until during the American and French Revolutions. Feminism is seen in many ways and can be a problem for some, but some can side with it. It's a concept that many even famous people can see and feel it's necessary to address. The demand for full equality to both men and women is profoundly radicalizing when it's met with the added types of discrimination individuals may experience like sexuality, race, age, class, and disability. Throughout the world's history, there are periods of time where women aren't as equals to the men. In a majority of western history especially. Public life was reserved for men. In feudal Europe, women didn't have the right to own property, to study, or to engage in public life. In France, women were still obligated to cover their heads in public. As well as in sections of Germany, husbands could legally sell their wife. Europe and most of the United States, in the early 20th century, women couldn't vote nor hold elective office and still couldn't conduct business without a male representative. A

There are three types of feminism: Socialist, reformist, and radical. Socialist is the oppression of women to inequalities that developed in connection with the class system of private property. 'Like racism, homophobia, and other forms of bigotry, sexism divides by working class and thereby allows the capitalists to make super-profits.' The reformist feminists believe that gender inequality can be eliminated through legislative or electoral reforms without the need to alter the capitalist system itself (Fem. 101). When a feminist targets the psychology or biology as the source of women's oppression, they're called a radical feminist. The most extreme form of this feminism is separatism, which advocates a total break with men (Fem.