Concept of “Post Feminism” | Report

Running head: POST-FEMINISM
POST-FEMINISM
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POST-FEMINISM1
The term “Post feminism” means “beyond” feminism. The term refers feminism as a
historical legacy and following it, Post feminism is further defined in the scholarly literature.
Post feminism introduces three concepts. The first one is described as the anti-feminism
backlash, meaning the societal perception is politically resisted. The backlash concept itself
indicates the retrogressive movement backward towards the time of pre-feminism. The
second concept includes the mainstream cultural movements and politics. It is not visible as it
is already accepted in the discourse of post-feminism. The third concept signifies the
evolution of feminism through the ways of productive self-reflection. It also associates the
perspectives of post-feminism with the concept of third-wave feminism to encourage the
instillations of innovative and conservative measures (Silva and Mendes, 2015). Following it,
later in social context, post feminism is perceived as the contradictory politics that contains
the traits of feminist concepts and is further modified in response to the demands of the
transitioning social context, where woman are asked to approach to be involved in gender
politics in order to identify as female in every new dynamics. The essay focuses on the
deliverance of the post feminism status in South Africa highlighting whether the concept of
post feminism is existent and manifested yet in the South African society.
The South African women and gender issues are identified globally that were majorly
on the narrow constructions of the woman and gender issues. It has been observed that
several analysis has been carried out based on the women who were under apartheid.
Apartheid is a social and a political system embarked in South Africa during the period of the
White minority rule (Chisholm, 2015). Under this system, the factors like racial
discrimination were enforced against the people who were non-whites, suggesting that they
were focused mainly on the colour and facial features of the people. This turmoil existed in
the twentieth century, from the year 1948 to the early 1990s. The women in South Africa is
observed to be oppressed by the system of racial discrimination than the masculine