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THEORY
Table of ContentsINTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1MAIN BODY...................................................................................................................................1History of Feminism...................................................................................................................1Feminist social practice and domestic violence..........................................................................3Feminist social work tools..........................................................................................................5CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................7REFERENCES ...............................................................................................................................8
INTRODUCTIONThis report is based up on the topic Feminism which can be defined as a range ofideologies, political movements and social movements which share a common goal i.e. to define,establish, to achieve economic, political, personal and social equality of genders Stanko, (2017).Feminism is a belief that women and men should have equal rights and opportunities within thesociety. Feminism is a vibrant tradition which has contributed to social transformation, culturalenrichment and intellectual ferment across all regions of the world. It is highly typical term as itmeans different things to those who repudiate and caricature it, so it means as network ofpractices which is designed to eliminate women's political, economic and social subordination.Feminism includes fighting gender stereotypes and try to seek to establish and achieveprofessional opportunities, educational opportunities for women which are equal to men. MAIN BODYHistory of FeminismFeminism is considered as one of the most important movements from the past twocenturies and is a social movement which brought most progressive and enduring transformationwithin the society across the world Barrett & et.al., (2016). In current scenario feminism ischaracterised by the desire for empowerment of women and their reliance on internet. At presentfeminism advocates for greater representation of groups in business, politics and the society tobecome more equitable if practice and policies incorporates the perspectives of all people. Withthe use of internet feminism has achieved great popularity and their movements can be easilyknown by people for example “Me Too” campaign was launched in 2017 October and thismovement began to spread virally as a hashtag on various social networking sites, which was anattempt to demonstrate the prevalence of harassment and sexual assault on women especially inthe work place. History of feminism can be divided into three different waves and each periodsignals different era of struggle in order to attain equality between the sexes (Trotter, (2015). At present feminism means different things to different people but one can go back to theorigin of feminism in late 18 centuries and it was the 1848 to 1920 the period of first wave offeminism activity, it occurred in 19 and early 20th centuries across the world. At its initial stage ithad slow start and it was until late 1880's the word feminism actually appeared Bartlett, (2018).During the first wave first advocate for the women's rights were pleading against the inequities in1
society's treatment against women. During the long first wave of feminism women did fightagainst various injustices of the society out of three main struggles were, women were restrictedto get the ownership of the property for which they required them to marry to get the inheritance,so they were prevented from attaining the true independence. Second struggle was that womenwere restricted to have full right over their bodies which meant that they had nob legal protectionduring that time if they were sexually exploited for example if husband raped his wife and thisact was not admitted as law till late 20th century Wendt & Moulding (Eds.). (2016). Thirdstruggle was that women were not given equal rights within the workplace which means thatwomen at that time were paid less as compared to men and even they were restricted fromapplying for various jobs and were denied from promotion. Once right to vote was granted, there was the decline in the women's right movementsand it remained inactive until late 1950's and early 1960's until it was reignited by newgenerations of activists and they called themselves the second wave of feminism Broude, (2018).For triggering second wave of feminism Betty Freudian is credited for second round of politicalstruggle. During second wave The National Organisation for Women was formed in 1966 and itbecame the focus for the feminist activism. The National Organisation for women set a goal ofratification of the equal rights amendment in to the constitution which was not quite successfulbut managed to create giant step towards It . During the second wave of feminism it took in theview the there should be equality among the sexes, and they believed that it could only comewhen there was a change in the cultural attitudes form the part of men and women. Incomparison to first wave of feminism which focused on overturning legal obstacles and suffrageof gender equality like property rights and voting but second wave of feminism had broadenedthe debate and included wider issues like sexuality, reproductive rights, equality at work place,official legal in equalities and de facto inequities. Second wave of feminism also drove attentiontowards the issue of domestic violence, women shelters, marital rape, endangered rape crisiscentres and it also brought the changes in divorcee law and custodial law Burck, (2018). Theideology that shaped second wave of feminism was, after the world war second, some writerbegan to question that majority of women in the society were perceived and the role they playedduring the second world war, they contributed equally men during war. In the year 1949, Simon de Beauvoir published a book which was called TheSecond Sexwhich was a book that questioned the views of the society towards women and the role which2
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