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

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.

Claims Behind Women's Liberation: دعاوى تحرير المرأة

The Study Aimed to Clarify the Claims of Women's Liberation and Also Dealt with Their Concept and Origin, and to Talk About the Most Prominent Advocates of Women's Freedom' And the Ideas and Belifs Advocated by The Advocates of Liberation and The Likes Raised Around Them. One of the Most Prominent Findings of the Study Is That Advocates of Women's Liberation Are A Secular Movement That Emerged At The Beginning of The Ninteenth Century In The Arab Countries Of Egypt, And The Balance Of Liberation Among Advocates Of Liberation Is That Women Liberate From The Command Of Our Lord And Disobey God Almighty.

Politically Marginalized Female Figures: Female Grassland and Celestial Bath

Yan Geling’s early work Female Grassland雌性的草地 (Yan, 1989) is a novel published in 1989, while Celestial Bath 天浴 (Yan, 2008) is a short story published in 1996. Both of Yan Geling’s works focus on female sent-down youth, with stories set in the grasslands of the Tibetan pastoral countryside during the mid-1970s, in the waning years of the Cultural Revolution 文化大革命 (1966-1976). This paper discusses women’s fragmentation to analyze the obstacles to women’s liberation during the sent-down youth movement, illustrating how female sent-down youth’ tragic experiences resulted because of political power.

FROM THE HISTORY OF EMANCIPATION OF UZBEK WOMEN OR THE "KHUDJUM" MOVEMENT

The article reveals the essence of the policy of emancipation of Uzbek women pursued by the Soviet government, that is, emancipation (from the Latin emancipatio -freedom from dependence and subordination), measures taken to widely disseminate the ideas of Bolshevism. The policy of women's liberation, historically known as the Khujum movement, dealt a powerful blow not only to women's veils, but also to their national, religious traditions and spiritual values.Index Terms: Soviet power, Khudjum movement, Uzbek women, emancipation, socialism, burqa, Khudjum company