FEMINISM
INTRODUCTION
The term “feminism” originated from the French word “feminisme,” coined by the utopian socialist Charles Fourier, and was first used in English in the 1890s, in association with the movement for equal political and legal rights for women. The term feminism can be used to describe a political, cultural or economic movement aimed at establishing equal rights and legal protection for women. I will take a look at explaining more feminism theory whereby it is a big challenge that women were oppressed were seen as the subordinate to men in the order of the society and its community. Then African Feminism which according to Higgs (2015:81),focuses on the politics of gender, that is, the power relations between men and women, which are structured around opposing notions of masculinity and femininity.
In existentialism we shall try to understand the meaning of life with regard to the issue of introducing feminism in schools level in order to inform the kids or children about this issue at an early stage of their lives.
BODY
Feminism according to Merriam Webster dictionary means the belief that women and men should have equal rights and opportunities. It is the theory of political, economic and social equality of the sexes and that it aims to understand the nature of gender inequality. It examines women and
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Through the country 's transition to multi-racial democracy in the mid-1990s, South African feminism contributed to the process of reconstruction, striving for a nonracist, nonsexist society. However, feminist activism and radical transformational politics were largely diluted in the process. Contemporary South African feminism continues to engage with questions of the role of feminism within broader national and international struggles for class and racial equality (Anon,