Feminism(女权主义) 邓宗平.ppt

* * * * * * Feminism 邓宗平 英语一班 What is feminism? refers to movements aimed at establishing and defending equal political, economic, and social rights and opportunities for women. bring about equality between men and women in the universe. Females`s position in history Aristotle, a philosopher and a teacher in Greek: the male is by nature superior, and the female inferior, and the one rules and the other is ruled. Freud: the female sexuality is based on a lack of a penis, the male sexual organ. Thomas Aquinas and Augustine: women are really “imperfect men.” When feminism started? During early 1900s, women gained the right to vote and became active in the social issues: health care/education/politics/literature, they wanted to gain the equality with men in these activities. Some famous feminists Virginia woolf： An English novelist and essayist, regarded as one of the foremost modernist literary figures of the twentieth century. One of the leaders in the literary movement of modernism Some famous feminists Virginia woolf： The work “A Room of One’s Own一间自己的房间”declared that men have and continue to treat women as inferiors. It`s the male who defines what it means to be female and who controls the political,economic,social,and literary structure. Some famous feminists Virginia woolf： Woolf argues that women must reject the social construct and establish their own identity. Women must challenge the prevailing盛行的 false cultural notions concerning their gender identity and develop a female discourse that will accurately portray their relationship “to the world of reality and not to the world of men.” Some famous feminists Simon de Beavoir The Second Sex： Women became “the other”, an object whose existence is defined and interpreted by the male, the female finds herself a secondary or nonexistent player in the major social institutions of her culture. She maintains women must reject the social construct that