Title: (DOC) feminist literary criticism:an introduction | Azhariah Rachman - Academia.edu
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feminist literary criticism:an introduction
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feminist literary criticism:an introduction

Content: This because women as a group are blocked by informal and formal discrimination and ideology which people learn through socialization that views women very differently than men (Sapiro, 1986:442). But the basic assumption of this type is freedom and equality has its root in rationality. So the basic struggle of liberal feminist is to demand same possibility and rights for every person including women. On the other hand, socialist feminism, which developed from Marxist thought, criticizes the liberal followers which stated that women have the same opportunities as men within given social institutions, but we have to look more deeply at the structure and relationship of those social institution themselves (Sapiro, 1986:443). As a matter of fact, the socialist feminism is a synthesis between Marxism class theory and "a person is political" from radical feminism (Jaggar, 1990:89). For the socialist feminists, female oppressions are found in every class. Radical feminism stated that sexual relations and sexuality are the center of their feminist framework. They defined that men are the problem and women are the solution. Societies in which currently arranged are patriarchal. They are run, organized, and defined by men for their own benefit (Sapiro, 1986, 445).