The Embodiment and Development of Feminism in English and American Literature

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10.2991/icesame-17.2017.371How to use a DOI?

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English and American Literature; Feminism; Sexism

Abstract

The more complete expression and embodiment of feminism in English and American literature was proposed by the French novelist Alexandre Dumas fils, which originated from the eighteenth century enlightenment era thinker. In the case of A Vindication of the Rights of Woman, Mary Wollstonecraft said that women should enjoy equal treatment with men in terms of education, employment and politics. Feminism in the nineteenth century gradually transformed into an organized social movement, Qasim Amin in the Tahriral-Mar'a worked to promote women's education and criticized the social customs at that time. The development of feminism in English and American literature can be divided into three stages, forming a unique feminism theory, mainly embodied in the socialist feminism, liberal feminism and radical feminism. In addition to criticism, those works also focused on the analysis of gender inequality, understood the nature of inequality, and promoted the change of power relations and sexual consciousness, to fulfill the goal of women's liberation.

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© 2017, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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