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It was during the industrial revolution in the west that women began seeing themselves in the new social roles that emerged and began thinking about the rights that could, or should, accrue to them as contributing members of society. Western literature presented new ideas of women's emancipation and thus began the movement in which they discovered themselves as new persons with inalienable rights and freedom. In two volumes, Feminism and Women's Human Rights ...
For centuries, women had been subjugated by the male of the species and every effort was made, through social customs and behaviour, to ensure that she did not look beyond the four walls of hearth and kept as such. But two centuries ago, with the advent of the Industrial Revolution and two world wars in which a large number of women took up jobs hat were formerly the exclusive domain of man, they began to assert themselves. The movement began in the West, and ...
With emancipation and education, and the awakening among women that spread to all parts of the world, it was but natural for feminism to grow into a struggle for women’s human rights. This book out lines the beginnings of the ferment of women’s liberation and feminism. It approaches the subject from all angles and puts it in the right concise style, it explains what feminism is all about, what are its linkages to human rights and humanism, how it evolved, how ...