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Social Opinion on Feminism

Social Opinion on Feminism


In this essay I shell refer to the politics as a power-structure relationship which is arranged so that one group of persons is controlled by another; arrangement of human life on agreeable and rational principles from where the entire nation of power over others should be banished, and we must confess that this is not what constitutes the political as we know it, and it is this that we – women – must address ourselves.

Sex is a status category with political implications. It is opportune, perhaps today, even mandatory, that we develop a more relevant psychology and philosophy of power relationships beyond the simple conceptual framework provided by our traditional formal politics.

We can say, and it will not be a surprise, that our society, like all other historical civilizations, is unfortunately, a patriarchy. The fact is evident at once if one recalls that the military, industry, technology, universities, science, political offices, and finance – in short, every avenue of power within the society, including the coercive force of police – is almost entirely in male hands.

If we take “patriarchal” government to be the institution, whereby that half of the population is female and is controlled by that half which is male, the principle of patriarchy is a social constant so deeply ingrained as to run through all other political, social, or economic forms, whether of caste or class feudality or bureaucracy, just as it pervades all major religions, it also exhibits great variety in history on locale. Even in democratic system, for example, females have often held no office or do so nowadays in such minuscule numbers as to be below even token representation (Millett, Sexual Politics).

As the essence of politics is power, such realization cannot fail to carry impact. The impact was the rise of the feminism and series – waves, as we call them – of women’s movement. In the United States the first wave started to grow in the mid 19th century. As with the liberation of any group long oppressed, the first priority was education. The sexual revolution would have little impetus, the women’s movement still less, without the growth of higher education for women, one of the major achievements of the period. An equal education is yet to come, but even the fact of knowledge was sufficiently revolutionary to spark an enormous unset and provide the movement with its leaders,...

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