NTA UGC/NET/SET/JRF Political Science Paper 2 - 2024, 2nd Edition, Includes 2023 Solved Papers

CHAPTER 5

Feminism

INTRODUCTION

Feminist thoughts are available in the political domain since the eighteenth-century, but as a political ideology, it received acceptance during the twentieth-century and is hence considered a part of contemporary political thought. The term ‘feminist’ was first used as a medical term to describe either the feminization of men or the masculinization of women. In the modern sense, the term feminism is invariably linked to the women’s movement and its attempt to advance the social role of women in human society.

CENTRAL IDEA

• Feminists are of opinion that women are pushed into a disadvantageous situation by society, just because they are women and not due to a lack of capabilities or anything else.
• This sex-based ...