Feminism

The concept of Feminism, in general, has been concerned to analysis of the trend of male domination in the society; the general attitude of male towards female; the exploitation and discrimination faced by females; the need for and ways of improving the condition of women; and, so on. In concern to literature, this movement has concentrated on the role played by literature to support gender discrimination as well as to oppose it; the reasons for lesser significance of the contribution by female writers in the literary tradition than that of the male writers; the difference in the ways in which works of male writers and female writer respectively, have represented gender discrimination, and, the ways in which social conditions and literary traditions regarding gender discrimination have affected one another. The concept got proper identification in the literary field during 1960s. Before that, feminism was limited to the authorship of female writers and the representation given to a women in literature with the help of female characters.
The adoption of the concept by literature in a formal manner led to the study of all the aspects of human life; like social, cultural, educational, professional and financial; with an intent to expose the intentional and unintentional efforts of the society to maintain or intensify the effects of patriarchal superiority.
The evolution of feminism as literary movement could be divided into two stages - First Wave Feminism and Second Wave Feminism. First Wave Feminism was concerned mainly to the treatment of women at the hands of male members of the society. The Second Wave Feminism, introduced, more or less the first time, a direct analysis of the relation between female and literature. It is also known as "Gynocentricism".
  

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