#Afuni Kindly Let's Talk Something About Oppression Against Feminine Since When Till Date Oppression is the inequitable use of authority, law, or physical force to prevent
others from being free or equal. Oppression is a type of injustice. The verb
oppress can mean to keep someone down in a social sense, such as an authoritarian
government might do in an oppressive society. It can also mean to mentally burden
someone, such as with the psychological weight of an oppressive idea.
Feminists fight against the oppression of women. Women have been unjustly held
back from achieving full equality for much of human history in many societies
around the world. Feminist theorists of the 1960s and 1970s looked for new ways to
analyze this oppression, often concluding that there were both overt and insidious
forces in society that oppressed women. These feminists also drew on the work of
earlier authors who had analyzed the oppression of women, including Simone de
Beauvoir in "The Second Sex" and Mary Wollstonecraft in "A Vindication of the
Rights of Woman". Many common types of oppression are described as “isms” such as
sexism, racism and so on. The opposite of oppression would be liberation
(to remove oppression) or equality (absence of oppression).
The Ubiquity of Women's Oppression
In much of the written literature of the ancient and medieval world, we have
evidence of women's oppression by men in European, Middle Eastern, and African
cultures. Women did not have the same legal and political rights as men and were
under control of fathers and husbands in almost all societies. In some societies
in which women had few options for supporting their life if not supported by a
husband, there was even a practice of ritual widow suicide or murder.
(Asia continued this practice into the 20th century with some cases occurring in
the present as well.)In Greece, often held up as a model of democracy, women did
not have basic rights, and could own no property nor could they participate
directly in the political system. In both Rome and Greece, women's every movement
in public was limited. There are cultures today where women rarely leave their
own homes.( To Be Continue )
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