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Feminism: a primitive discourse about men and women in the sexual system
Feminism, like fascism, communism, Icapitalism, pacifism, fundamentalism, Islamism or any other ism, is a way of thinking, an ideology, a belief to understand the world, to interpret the past, to design the future. Isms are always aimed at political change, thus the acquisition and application of power.
Feminism is not the same as 'women's movement', just as communism is not the same as the labourers' movement, nor fundamentalism the same as the social uprising of moslims.
Feminism is a way of thinking
which is based on the distinction between male and female, (usually narrowed down to 'men' and 'women'), in which the women are claimed to be the underdogs, unjustly treated by men, by the
laws of men, or by other conditions created by men or beneficial to men.
Thu
s, feminism is not restricted to one sex, or to race, age or nationality. Rather it is a discourse produced by all sorts of people. Anyone who subscribes to the idea that men are the masters of the world while women are suppressed and treated unfairly, is a feminist.
At times an ism can be the dominant discourse, because nearly everybody beleives its basic tenets.
Feminism, like other isms, is a religion without a god. It arose, just as capitalism, socialism and liberalism did, in the 19th century, after the formal separation of church and state in the constitutions of modern countries. Thus, it is a system of secular belief, characteristic of a political doctrine. The fact that feminism never gave rise to a politica
l party of any significance does not mean that it has not exerted a great deal of power behind the scenes, so to speak.
(more at link
Feminism, like fascism, communism, Icapitalism, pacifism, fundamentalism, Islamism or any other ism, is a way of thinking, an ideology, a belief to understand the world, to interpret the past, to design the future. Isms are always aimed at political change, thus the acquisition and application of power.
Feminism is not the same as 'women's movement', just as communism is not the same as the labourers' movement, nor fundamentalism the same as the social uprising of moslims.
Feminism is a way of thinking
which is based on the distinction between male and female, (usually narrowed down to 'men' and 'women'), in which the women are claimed to be the underdogs, unjustly treated by men, by the
laws of men, or by other conditions created by men or beneficial to men.
Thu
s, feminism is not restricted to one sex, or to race, age or nationality. Rather it is a discourse produced by all sorts of people. Anyone who subscribes to the idea that men are the masters of the world while women are suppressed and treated unfairly, is a feminist.
At times an ism can be the dominant discourse, because nearly everybody beleives its basic tenets.
Feminism, like other isms, is a religion without a god. It arose, just as capitalism, socialism and liberalism did, in the 19th century, after the formal separation of church and state in the constitutions of modern countries. Thus, it is a system of secular belief, characteristic of a political doctrine. The fact that feminism never gave rise to a politica
l party of any significance does not mean that it has not exerted a great deal of power behind the scenes, so to speak.
(more at link
