Femenism: Patriarchal society and oppression of women

1. Femenism:
Patriarchal society and
oppression of women
Mahmud Naser Jhony
Addl. SP /Bangladesh Police
B.P : 8112147642

2. Some Teminolggy
Patriarchy
Matrimony
Androgyny
Family
Personal Property
Socialization
Feminism

3. Historical Aspect
Means of production
Production Relation
Infra structure
Super structure
Pre-historical era
Barbarian society
Civilized society

4. Mary Wollstonecraft (1759-
1797)
• A leading early feminist, held that males
and females should be educated according
to the same standard. She was fairly well
known by the time she published “A
Vindication of the rights of Woman”.
• First, she argued that educating women
to be the ornaments to, and playthings of,
men would have bad consequences for
society.

5. Mary Wollstonecraft (1759-
1797)
• A leading early feminist, held that males
and females should be educated according
to the same standard. She was fairly well
known by the time she published “A
Vindication of the rights of Woman”.
• First, she argued that educating women
to be the ornaments to, and playthings of,
men would have bad consequences for
society.

6. Mary Wollstonecraft (contd)
• . Second, she argued that raising women to
be ornamental would have bad
consequences for women. No matter how
charming a woman might be, after a few
years of daily contract, her husband would
ultimately become somewhat bored and
distracted. If women have no inner
resources to fall back on, Wollstonecraft
argued, they will then “grow languid, or
become a spring of bitterness”,

7. Mary Wollstonecraft (contd)
• . Third, and perhaps most important, she
argued that women were as capable as men
of attaining the “masculine” virtues of
wisdom and rationality, if only society
would allow those virtues to be cultivated.
• “virtues” of women- docility, dependence,
and sensitively- were commonly associated
with weakness. She held that there should be
no distinction between female excellence
and human excellence.

8. Simone de Beauvoir (1908-
1986)
• Simone de Beauvoir was a feminist existentialist
who extended the discussion of feminism into all
areas of intellectual endeavor. The publication of
“The second sex”.
• “No group ever sets itself up as the One without at
once setting up the Other over against itself”
• “one is not born, but rather becomes,
a woman”.

9. Kate Millett
• Kate Millett a contemporary American
feminist, argues that patriarchy extends to
all areas of life. Kate Millett’s published
Sexual Politics (1970).
• she gave a systematic analysis of how
women are oppressed by patriarchal
institutions.

10. Kate Millett
She also looked at the socialization process
and observed that the characteristics
systematically encouraged in women-
passivity, ignorance, docility, “virtue”- were
those that made them convenient
subordinates. Millett focused especially on
the way the political, sociological, and
psychological aspects of male-female
relations were interrelated.

11. LIBERATION OF
WOMEN
Denial of being slave to human race.
• Participate in national
Economic activities and be
creative and active.
• Marriage : A problem
• Education: main tools