第1个回答 2011-09-23
Feminism is a collection of movements aimed at defining, establishing, and defending equal political, economic, and social rights and equal opportunities for women.[1][2][3] Its concepts overlap with those of women's rights. Feminism is mainly focused on women's issues, but because feminism seeks gender equality, some feminists argue that men's liberation is therefore a necessary part of feminism, and that men are also harmed by sexism and gender roles. Feminists are "person[s] whose beliefs and behavior[s] are based on feminism."[4]
Feminist theory exists in a variety of disciplines, emerging from these feminist movements[5][6] and including general theories[specify] and theories about the origins of inequality, and, in some cases, about the social construction of sex and gender. Feminist activists have campaigned for women's rights—such as in contract, property, and voting — while also promoting women's rights to bodily integrity and autonomy and reproductive rights. They have opposed domestic violence, sexual harassment, and sexual assault. In economics, they have advocated for workplace rights, including equal pay and opportunities for careers and to start businesses.
Some of the earlier forms of feminism have been criticized for being geared towards white, middle-class, educated perspectives. This led to the creation of ethnically-specific or multiculturalist forms of feminism.
Although I am not a feminist, I admire Susan B. Anthony for her daring to hold on to her view
even being mocked cruelly by her contemporaries. A tireless civil rights worker , Anthony devoted
her life to the work which has guaranteed women’s basic right, including suffrage and equal
protections under law. She believed that men and women are created equal and persevered
unremittingly in opening doors and expanding acceptable modes of behavior for women. In the
patriarchy society of her time, people considered her unladylike and ridiculous. However , 19th
Amendment to the Constitution gives women’s rights to vote, which established Susan B.
Anthony as a bold revolutionary feminist in history