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The Comparison of Jane Eyre and AntoinetteBook Review of Wide Sargasso Sea[Abstract] This research paper compares different womanhood in Jane Eyre and Antoinette in Wide Sargasso Sea to find the differences between modern feminist and old feminist. [Keyword] comparison, Jane Eyre, Wide Sargasso Sea, feminist, gender equality, racial equalityUnlike the other approaches, feminist literary criticism is often a political attack upon other modes of criticism and theory, and its social orientation moves beyond traditional literary criticism. In its diversity feminism is concerned with the marginalization of all women: that is, with their being relegated to a secondary position. Studying both subjectivity and politics in the most natural way, it is an intellectual, philosophical and political discourse aimed at equal rights and legal protection for women. It involves various movements, theories, and philosophies, all concerned with issues of gender difference that advocate equality for women and campaign for women’s rights and interests. Beginning in the 18th century, the history of feminist movements has been divided into three waves by feminist scholars. Third-wave feminism (1990s-current) was a reaction to and continuation from the second-wave, taking a post-structuralism analysis of femininity to argue that there is in fact no all-encompassing single feminist idea. It set itself against essentialist definitions of femininity, which assume a universal female identity, instead of emphasizing discursive power and the ambiguity of gender. The second wave of feminist activity began in the early 1960s and lasted through the late 1980s, attempting to further fight against social and cultural inequalities. Both Simone de Beauvoir and Betty Fridan are representatives of this wave and second-wave feminists held the idea that women’s cultural and political inequalities were inextricably linked with each other and encouraged women to understand aspects of their personal lives as d