【英语论文】汤姆琼斯和简爱中的女权主义(英文).doc

Feminism in Tom Jones and Jane Eyre 汤姆琼斯和简爱中的女权主义 I. Introduction Feminism is both an intellectual commitment and a political movement that seeks justice for women and the end of sexism in all forms. However, there are many different kinds of feminism. Feminists disagree about what sexism consists in, and what exactly ought to be done about it; They disagree about what it means to be a woman or a man and what social and political implications gender has or should have. Nonetheless, motivated by the quest for social justice, feminist inquiry provides a wide rang of perspectives on social, cultural, and political phenomena. Important topics for feminist theory and politics include: the body, class and work, disability, the family, globalization, human rights, popular culture, race and racism, reproduction, science, the self, sex work, and sexuality. 1.1? Feminism Beliefs and Feminist Movements The term ‘feminism ’has many different uses and its meanings are often contested. For example, some writers use the term ‘feminism ’ to refer to a historically specific political movement in the US and Europe; Other writers use it to refer to the belief that is injustices against women, 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. Although the term ‘feminism ’ in English is rooted in the mobilization for woman suffrage in Europe and the US during the late 19th and early 20th century, of course efforts to obtain justice for woman did not begin or end with this period of activism. Therefore some have found it useful to think of the women’s movement in the US occurring