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THREAD : Western #FEMINISM

Don;t be dazzled by the bright smiling ladies Pics taken from web

Dedicated to Beacon of #woman @ShefVaidya @NAN_DINI_ @mini_razdan10 @LevinaNeythiri

Let us see how Feminism has evolved over millenniums to today

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#Genesis says (Old testaments), #EVE was made from Adam& #39;s Rib. Eve was tempted to the evil serpent (Nachash) and persuaded Adam to eat forbidden fruit.

God punished the #Woman with pain in childbirth and subordination to man

https://www.britannica.com/biography/Adam-and-Eve-biblical-literary-figures
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During 500-400 BC, #Woman were little better than #SLAVE. Marriages were arranged by parents

Plato perceived Woman as waste of natural resources. He rejected concept of nuclear family & proposed Society as family

Mgsthns noted no #Slavery in India

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Aristotle (347-322BC), disciple of #Plato believed #Woman are colder than man hence less soul and energy.

He agreed #Woman subordination and perceived woman merely child producing vessel.

#Indian woman enjoyed great freedom at the same time.

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1st century AD, #woman gained some soft power in terms of control over property, education.

But she continued to be treated like a child. She could get trapped sexually.

#Love and affection could also be mutual b/w husband and wife started to seed in

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1st century AD, #woman gained some soft power in terms of control over property, education.But she continued to be treated like a child. She could get trapped sexually. #Love and affection could also be mutual b/w husband and wife started to seed in https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable=

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Another incidence in 3rd Century BCE, when #woman were protesting laws limiting their right to use of expensive goods. CATO said if #woman were victorious then they will become superiors to man

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Augustine in 4th century, considered #Woman:

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Few quotes from 3rd and 4th Century calling woman temple over sewer to cattle dung shows primitive outlook towards #Woman

@chitranayal09 @madhukishwar @ThAlkaSingh
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12th Century Acquinas agrees mostly with Aristotle view on #Woman.
He considers #Woman as defective male not capable of preaching. To him #Woman were derived human being and mostly inferior to male.
@77OmShantiOm @onlyonenetra @lakshmianand96
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Early 15th-century France,Christine de Pisan, challenged prevailing attitudes toward women with a bold call for female education, Marital oppersssions & frivolity of #Woman& #39;s attire.
@GharWapasi_ @VertigoWarrior
#ref216005">https://www.britannica.com/topic/feminism #ref216005
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Martin Luther (1483-1546) said “The word and works of God is quite clear, that women were made either to be & #39;wives& #39; or & #39;prostitutes& #39;.”
He believed that Man should hit #woman and that #woman should never learn.

@Mochievous

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Struggle for right continued from late 16s to 17s century.

Mary Astell (1694) work suggested that women inclined neither toward marriage nor a religious vocation should set up secular convents where they might live, study, and teach.
@UshaNirmala
11/n

Late 18th Century, reformists excluded woman calling them silly and frivolous. However, #female intellectuals continued to fight for equal rights in education, work, politics. Influence of Enlightenment was across North America and Europe
@SarasWarrior @ankitasood13
12/n

Women’s suffrage, (right of women to vote) gained momentum in mid 19s as #woman were denied voting rights even in expanding / new democracies.

@YoSwaroop
13/n

Majorly, voting right to #woman were conferred in world by 19th & 20th century
The #UN Convention on the Political Rights of Women, adopted in 1952, provides that "women shall be entitled to vote in all elections on equal terms with men, without any discrimination"
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With age old sufferings western #Woman struggled a lot to reach to a point of today.

#Woman are no more & #39;Private Property& #39; they are by and large at par to their Male counterpart except few & #39;countries& #39;

@Aabhas24 @flashvista @Sanjay_Dixit @vivekagnihotri @PhasistB

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