Mothers Of the Rising Nations E-Book

Ellias Aghili Dehnavi

• Herausgeber: tredition
• Kategorie: Geisteswissenschaft
• Sprache: Englisch

Seitenzahl: 63

Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2021

Beschreibung

The discourse upon feminism and feminist movements seems either easy or difficult. Part of its difficulty is due to its variety of orientations that in somehow cause some serious conflicts in the area of opinion and action. On the other hand, besides these varieties in orientations, one can mention the variety of different and contradictory interpretations in feminism, and its achievements and consequences, which implies the necessity of cautious and comprehensive thinking in discourse. Investigating the consequences of feminism in west world, the present writing is seeking to inspect the evolution of present topic in regards to the society of Iran, with a futurology approach. Therefore, in the first section of the book, the feminism in west is delineated and in the next section its future vision in developing countries will be presented.

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ELLIAS AGHILI DEHNAVI, MELIKA ASADI

Mothers Of the Rising Nations

The Futurology of Feminism’s Role in Developing Countries

Copyright © 2021 Ellias Aghili Dehnavi, Melika Asadi

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Mothers of the Rising Nations

The Futurology of Feminism’s Role in Developing Countries

To my friend and sister, Anna Von Hinuber

Introduction

The discourse upon feminism and feminist movements seems either easy or difficult. Part of its difficulty is due to its variety of orientations that in somehow cause some serious conflicts in the area of opinion and action. On the other hand, besides these varieties in orientations, one can mention the variety of different and contradictory interpretations in feminism, and its achievements and consequences, which implies the necessity of cautious and comprehensive thinking in discourse. Investigating the consequences of feminism in west world, the present writing is seeking to inspect the evolution of present topic in regards to the society of Iran, with a futurology approach. Therefore, in the first section of the book, the feminism in west is delineated and in the next section its future vision in developing countries will be presented.

Disjunction between the Doctrines of Feminism and Modernism

Modernity is known as a lifestyle and way of thinking in European and North American people lived after 17th century. The evolutions of western life after modernity was so ample and deep that western historians tend to introduce that as a historical turning point in the western civilization history. However, newer historians, in addition to accepting the tremendous changes caused by modernity, they consider this period along the previous periods of western civilization history [1].

The foundation of modernity civilization can be categorized in three elements, modernity conversation (illustration), new models and structures of economics and politics, and eventually the institutions of modern society such as government and bureaucracy. The differences and changes in each foregoing elements justify the changes in western people’s lifestyle in comparison to previous periods. It is natural that the underhung evolutions in modernity affect the women’s individual and social life and consequently it was influential on the patterns of family. The modernity doctrines emphasize the individualism, de-authorization, and secularism besides the values dominated on new economics, which usually is formed by accumulation of wealth and increase in manufacturing, gradually forced society and western women to review their traditional lifestyles. Investigating the consequences and achievements of feminism’s movements shows that emphasis on legal freedom, relative welfare of women, and enhancement in social political opportunities, are some of the achievements of feminism’s movements that frequently mentioned by feminisms. While regardless of whether they are completely positive or negative, these achievements are the cause of capitalism and domination of modern conversation. In fact, in 19th century, the pinnacle of the first wave feminism movements, is the century of minority movements and revolutions in America, which feminism’s movement itself affected by many of these movements [2]. Modernity and its economic pattern, capitalism, needs anti-ideology and denial of the conflicts between minorities and the modernity system. Capitalism in west should have acted on solving the problem of social minorities like Jews, race minorities like colored, economical minorities like slaves and workers, and sexual minorities. Obviously, it doesn’t mean that modernity anti-ideology and anti-minority wasn’t faced any resistance inside the capitalism and majority class, but still the role of fighting and consistency of minorities couldn’t be ignored in this field. Even there is a discourse that many of achievements known as the achievements of feminism’s movements, are eventually the result of capitalism and modern conversations. However, one can be disagreed with Davidson’s saying that “All things feminism has done for women in recent century doesn’t worth more than a washing machine.” [3]. As a witness to this, one can mention the opinions of many western writers that basically feminism is a movement of 20th century and the fighting of western women in 19th century is introduced as the continuation of inside conversation movements in modernity [4]. There is no doubt that regardless of examples and their domains, historically women suffered from deprivations and discriminations. And despite the existence of feminism’s movements and industrial developments, women still suffer from discriminations and violence, and intrinsically there is no difference between the presence of sexual anomalies among developed and developing countries. However, the forms of oppression, discrimination and their domain are different among various civilizations. It is natural that in companion with the existence of inequality, oppression and discrimination against women, there should exist a defense for women rights and fighting against inequalities among two sexes. In fact, fighting against discrimination and oppression is originated from understanding and interpretation of these concepts among different societies. The existing differences among people who based on their religious and human education defend the suppressed women rights and those who based on the values and norms of modernism and offensive behaviors try to remove all the symbols and realities of these differences, are so deep that the examples of these two can be easily separated. The feminist movement and its doctrines influenced many of our individual and social life. It is massively observed that the people who are against feminism and criticize the achievements of feminism, do not accompany with the critics.

General Characteristics of Western Feminism

As it is demonstrated before, one of the issues appears in feminism’s discussion, is the existence of various orientation that somehow represents the contradictory positions. So, speaking about feminism in a way that spans all the orientations and their doctrines, although is inherently difficult but it doesn’t lie in the goal of this writing. Nevertheless, some common statements can be stated about purposes, goals, methods, origins and consequences of feminist movement.

A) Denial of Sexual Discrimination

One of the basic lessons of many feminist movements is the denial of the differences between men and women in acceptance of roles and specified social works. It can be said that as sexual clichés, almost all movements and feminist orientations deny the division of social work among two sexes. Since family is the most important institute that is formed based on the feminine and masculine behavior, in feminist point of view this institute either needs a pattern correction or basically needs an anarchist revolution. However, what is important among these issues is that the supporters of feminism instead of representing evidence to approve this claim, they usually focus their attempts on forming a society to deny the behavioral differences between two sexes and attribute the patterns of behavioral differences to cultural reasons and at the same time they try to formalize this idea in legal and educational contexts. For instance, one the most important international documents about women rights is “the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women”. In the first clause of this convention, which its contexts are repeated in many other international conventions, is stated that the phrase “discrimination against women” in this convention means assigning any difference, exception or limitation based on sex. Despite the affluent battles exists among feminist orientations on the conflict about difference or