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Socialist Feminist Analysis

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There are many different ideologies in the world. Feminism is one of the important ideologies that have a big influence our society and period change. In the history, females were fight for gaining equality, changes, dignity and the same right as male. Feminist theory is beyond the common male-based perspective which is focusing on gender inequality in the society. Specifically towards women, the unfair treatment of a group of people, just because they are belong to this group. When women stand up to against inequality, they will fall into the other inequality treatment. Also, some people were regard women as objects that treated less important in the society. Feminist theory thinks that women are under the oppression and treated unjustly. …show more content…

Socialist feminism rose in the 1960s and 1970s. To achieve women liberation, ending the woman oppression by economic and cultural is necessary. So that, socialist feminists believe that patriarchy is not the only source of oppression of woman. Social feminism refers to the issue of women liberation as important as class struggle. Socialist feminism focuses on the public and private areas of female’s lives. The perspectives of socialist are more comprehensive, I support socialist feminism more than others. Socialist feminist argue that women liberation can only be come true by ending the economic and cultural origin of women oppression. To achieve this it seeks to challenge capitalism and male supremacy or patriarchy and care gender …show more content…

In the society, some women may not think that they were oppressed, but actually, they were oppressed. Unequal treatment is an idea that some people may not be easier to discover, because those ideas were ingrained in people’s mind. Just take an example happen normally. If a husband was familiar with cooking, and the husband will cook when he need to cook, almost all people will think that this man was a very good man; he must be a kind and good person. But if a wife familiar with cooking, and she cooks every day. People will think it is normal and necessary behavior because when a woman got marriage, she must be responsible for all of housework, no matter cooking, sweeping, cleaning or other things. Because of the capitalist model of production, women are always exploited, like the working class. Women are expected to do many things, if a woman cannot do it, this woman may not be a good woman. It is unfair that women can be seen as properties that belong to males in patriarchy society. Also, unequal treatment is happen all over the world. According to the research from Pew Research Center, in the United States, even though male and female do the same job in the same time, male will get higher wage than female. In 2015, women earned 83% what men earned. It means that women need to do extra 44 days of work to earn money if women want to earn as same wage as man. The unfair treatment to women is a kind of

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