A Study of Comparison of Traditional and Modern Oeuvre

The term “Feminism” has different uses and its meaning is often contested. Some writers use this term to refer to a historically specific political movement in the US and Europe; whereas, others use it to refer to the belief that there are injustices against women, though there is no consensus on the exact list of these injustices. Although the term “feminism” has a history in English, linked with women’s activism, from the late 19th century to the present, it is useful to distinguish feminist ideas or beliefs from feminist political movements, for, even in periods where there has been no significant political activism around women’s subordination, individuals have been concerned with and theorized about justice for women. To speak of “Feminism” as a theory is already a reduction. However, in terms of its theory, ‘Feminism’ may be categorized into three general groups: theories having an essentialist focus, including psychoanalytic and French feminism; theories aimed at defining or establishing a feminist literary canon or theories seeking to re-interpret and re-vision literature and culture and history and so forth from a less patriarchal slant including gyno criticism, liberal feminism; and theories focusing on sexual difference and sexual politics including gender studies, lesbian studies, cultural feminism, radical feminism, and socialist/ materialist feminism.