Feminism - Introduction By Harry-Krishna Govinden

Thursday, March 18, 2010

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Equality, justice and freedom are the common words used to describe feminism and its ideology in the promotion of gender equality and women's' emancipation as it is often referred by feminists themselves and their sympathizers. This paper will demonstrate that while feminism appear to be a salutary and comprehensible struggle, this ideology has found to be lacking in-depth analysis on social issues relating to social identification and has proved to be authoritative by definition.

Who are the feminists?

From Simone de Beauvoir to Naomi Wolf, what do these women have in common irrespective of being women and living from different era? The answer leads to: Both belong to the same upper social status and are simply referred as bourgeois women. These women belong to a specific upper social class (bourgeoisie) that is subdivided between two caste; the established bourgeoisie, those individuals who hailed from an old and longed established fortune and secondly, the new bourgeoisie where individuals who, before attaining their current social status, were previously issued from modest and lower social class and have attained the next level through education and professional success. Feminists in the modern context mostly belong to the new bourgeoisie caste that has emerged due to the democratization of education and access to information and capital. Feminists could as well be classified as leftist oriented bourgeois women duly influenced from their former social condition, thus carrying a tradition of progressive oriented ideology which forges their temperament and character.

The motivation of feminists

In order to determine the root causes of the feminists' motivation, a social analysis is required to determine the social differences that exists between the lower class often referred as the proletarian class and the upper class also referred as the bourgeoisie class.

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