scholarly journals Liberal Feminism: Emphasizing Individualism and Equal Rights in Meena Kandasamy’s When I Hit You

2022 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
pp. 20-27
Author(s):  
J. Sangeetha ◽  
S. Mohan ◽  
R. Kannan
Keyword(s):  
Gender Inequality ◽  
Liberal Democracy ◽  
Women's Liberation ◽  
Equal Rights ◽  
Liberal Feminism ◽  
Women’S Liberation ◽  
Award Winning ◽  
The Feminine ◽  
Young Wife

Liberal feminism is the emerging mainstream feminism that spotlights gender inequality and women’s liberation within the context of liberal democracy. The aim of the study focuses on the perspectives of liberal feminism using prominent ideas of liberal thinkers in Meena Kandasamy’s award-winning novel When I Hit You: Or, A Portrait of the Writer as a Young Wife (2017). The methodology of the study includes concepts of liberal feminism in the text, and it is substantiated and explored using the ideologies of notable liberal thinkers such as Mary Wollstonecraft’s A Vindication of the Rights of Women, Betty Friedan’s The Feminine Mystique and John Stuart Mill’s On Liberty and The Subjection of Women.  The protagonist’s transition from a submissive to a self-liberated persona strengthens the novel’s credibility as a liberal feminist text. The paper also attempts to show that the concepts of liberal feminism very well appear in the selected text.

Sisterhood and After

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Margaretta Jolly
Keyword(s):  
Oral History ◽  
Women's Liberation ◽  
Equal Rights ◽  
Collective Memories ◽  
Women’S Liberation ◽  
Two Generations ◽  
Personal Accounts ◽  
The Individual ◽  
The Uk ◽  
Cultural Taste

This ground-breaking history of the UK Women’s Liberation Movement explores the individual and collective memories of women at its heart. Spanning at least two generations and four nations, and moving through the tumultuous decades from the 1970s to the present, the narrative is powered by feminist oral history, notably the British Library’s Sisterhood and After: The Women’s Liberation Oral History Project. The book mines these precious archives to bring fresh insight into the lives of activists and the campaigns and ideas they mobilised. It navigates still-contested questions of class, race, violence, and upbringing—as well as the intimacies, sexualities and passions that helped fire women’s liberation—and shows why many feminists still regard notions of ‘equality’ or even ‘equal rights’ as insufficient. It casts new light on iconic campaigns and actions in what is sometimes simplified as feminism’s ‘second wave’, and enlivens a narrative too easily framed by ideological abstraction with candid, insightful, sometimes painful personal accounts of national and less well-known women activists. They describe lives shaped not only by structures of race, class, gender, sexuality and physical ability, but by education, age, love and cultural taste. At the same time, they offer extraordinary insights into feminist lifestyles and domestic pleasures, and the crossovers and conflicts between feminists. The work draws on oral history’s strength as creative method, as seen with its conclusion, where readers are urged to enter the archives of feminist memory and use what they find there to shape their own political futures.

Does Women's Liberation Imply Children's Liberation?

Hypatia ◽  
1988 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 49-62
Author(s):  
Laura M. Purdy
Keyword(s):  
Women's Liberation ◽  
Equal Rights ◽  
Women’S Liberation

Shulamith Firestone argues that for women to embrace equal rights without recognizing them for children is unjust. Protection of children is merely repressive control: they are infantilized by our treatment of them. I maintain that many children no longer get much protection, but neither are they being provided with an environment conducive to learning prudence or morality. Recognizing equal rights for children is likely to worsen this situation, not make it better.

scholarly journals Liberal Feminism Impact on Moroccan Educated Women: Faculty of Letters and Human Sciences, FLDM, as a Field Study

2019 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 128-152
Author(s):  
Sofian Herouach
Keyword(s):  
Social Status ◽  
Field Work ◽  
Women's Liberation ◽  
Traditional Treatment ◽  
Liberal Feminism ◽  
Women’S Liberation ◽  
The Social ◽  
Students Attitudes ◽  
Moroccan Women ◽  
The One

AbstractThe present study is an attempt to investigate students’ attitudes towards the social status of Moroccan women and the variables that may influence the cause of women’s liberation. These variables may include feminism, female activism and international human rights on the one hand. On the other hand, factors such as religion, patriarchy and marriage legislation could stand against the cause of female emancipation. The paper uses a theoretical and practical part. The review of literature is broad and inclusive that it trespasses the national intellectual framework on the issue of women’s liberation to referring to western major feministic movements for women’s emancipation worldwide such as liberal feminism. The field work is conducted through distributing a representative number of questionnaires, 350 questionnaires. Briefly, the findings proved that the majority of respondents, 55% hold the view that religion stands as a primary factor behind conservative gender perception, whereas 49% of the respondents believe that education is the factor behind such perceptions. Furthermore, 40% believed that the patriarchal system is the element behind traditional treatment of gender. Concerning marriage legislation, 55% agree with the reforms in Al Mudawana in 2004. For female activism, 72% believe that women largely contributed in bringing about the changes in the Al Mudawana reforms of 2004. This helped to generate an increasing female participation in politics as proved by 58% of the respondents. Finally, 65% hold the view that women’s social status nowadays is semi-liberal and improving.

scholarly journals The Politics of Language: "Feminism in Eastern Europe"

1970 ◽  
pp. 8
Author(s):  
Lisa Mulholland
Keyword(s):  
Eastern Europe ◽  
Labor Force ◽  
Women's Liberation ◽  
Equal Rights ◽  
The Past ◽  
Women’S Liberation ◽  
Politics Of Language

In Eastern Europe, "feminism" is a dirty word. The same holds true for other words like "emancipation," "equal rights for women," and "women's liberation." Under communist regimes of the past, "emancipation" was imposed on women and given as the reason given for requiring women to leave their homes to become part of the labor force.

A (Qualified) Defense of Liberal Feminism

Hypatia ◽  
1987 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 65-93 ◽  
Author(s):  
Susan Wendell
Keyword(s):  
Equality Of Opportunity ◽  
Radical Feminism ◽  
Women's Liberation ◽  
The Public ◽  
Liberal Feminism ◽  
Women’S Liberation ◽  
Political Commitments

Liberal feminism is not committed to a number of philosophical positions for which it is frequently criticized, including abstract individualism, certain individualistic approaches to morality and society, valuing the mental/rational over the physical/emotional, and the traditional liberal way of drawing the line between the public and the private.Moreover, liberal feminism's clearest political commitments, including equality of opportunity, are important to women's liberation and not necessarily incompatible with the goals of socialist and radical feminism.

scholarly journals Pornografl-Pornoaksi Dalam Perundang-Undangan dan Perjuangan Membebaskan Perempuan

2006 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 81
Author(s):  
Kholid Zulfa
Keyword(s):  
Gender Equality ◽  
Criminal Law ◽  
Women's Liberation ◽  
Large Role ◽  
Equal Rights ◽  
Women’S Liberation ◽  
Liberation Struggle ◽  
The Impact

Women still have to make hard effort to strive for liberating themselves. As most of them persistently fight for gender equality to gain their equal rights before men, and when men's sympathy hugely grows to take women as their equal contenders, many other women at the same time enjay being involved in pornography and porno-action. They harm people by committing sex exploitation in various actions. The question then comes up, how the acts govern the pornography and porno action and what impact it will make for women's struggle. This article describes the constitutions regulating porno. graphy and porno-action and elaborates the impact of pornography-porno action towards the entire women's liberation struggle. The term of porno. graphy-porno action, scope, and the object used in criminal laws vary in many countries. They use it both explicitly or implicitly in which the judge's reasoning plays a large role within it. Terminologically, the word of porno. graphy-pomo-action is not found in Indonesian Criminal Law. Nevertheless, it is substantially stated by: Crime against Norms. we can read that in chapters 281, 282, 283, 532 and533  of Criminal Law.

Fixing the Meaning of the Movement

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bonnie J. Dow
Keyword(s):  
Civil Rights ◽  
Civil Rights Movement ◽  
White Male ◽  
Network News ◽  
Women's Liberation ◽  
Equal Rights Amendment ◽  
Equal Rights ◽  
Negative Stereotypes ◽  
Women’S Liberation ◽  
Image Problems

This chapter focuses on the ABC documentary on the Ladies' Home Journal sit-in entitled “Women's Liberation,”, produced by reporter Marlene Sanders. The documentary is 1970's key example of a supportive reporter's self-conscious effort to represent the movement fairly. It also serves as the most developed example of network news' reliance on race–sex and feminism–civil rights analogies. In her memoir of her reporting career, Sanders makes clear that she saw the documentary as an intervention into poor media treatment of the movement, echoing the contention of many feminists that the movement's image problems resulted from reporting by men. Refuting negative stereotypes about women's liberation (including, importantly, man-hating) was among the program's central strategies, as was an analogy to the moderate civil rights movement. Sanders's effort to package feminism in comprehensible and commonsensical terms that would make sense to her imagined white male viewer resulted in an evolutionary liberal narrative that narrowed the meaning of the movement in crucial ways, diminishing rather than demonizing its radicalism and presenting the Equal Rights Amendment as the answer to what ailed women.

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