Feminism Feminist literary theory is one of the most prominent forms of literary theory that has its origins in the most influential social and political movement and dynamic philosophy of history
Feminism Feminist literary theory is one of the most prominent forms of literary theory that has its origins in the most influential social and political movement and dynamic philosophy of history. • Feminism is one of the most influential movements and dynamic philosophies in history, which seeks to convince the patriarchal society to give women the same rights and opportunities as men.Women struggled forages and have been fighting for almost a century for their rights. The term Feminism highlights their oppression, and this term has been used in every campaign that calls to abolish women’s suffrage during the last decade of the nineteenth century and it made an impact on literary works, politics, and all aspects of society. Feminist theory emerged from the struggle for women’s rights, beginning in the 18th century with Mary Wollstonecraft’s publication of A Vindication of the Rights of Woman. Waves of Feminism Feminism can be described in a series of waves, that focused on the nature of the difference between the two genders, the relation between cultural symbols and material processes, and the unconscious reproduction of patriarchy. First wave of feminism The first wave of feminism, in the 19th and 20th centuries, began in the US and the UK as a struggle for equality and property rights for women, by suffrage groups and activist organisations. These feminists fought against chattel marriages and for political and economic equality. An important text of the first wave is Virginia Woolf‘s A Room of One’s Own (1929), which asserted the importance of woman’s independence, and through the character Judith (Shakespeare’s fictional sister, explicated how the patriarchal society prevented
