Revisiting the Feminine Roles through Fresh Lenses: Reconsidering the Positioning Values of Women in the Patriarchal Societies

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https://doi.org/10.53724/inspiration/v7n2.03

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Cultural dominion, Gender studies, Gender equality, Oppressive ideology, Black Feminism, Dalit feminism, Socio-political structure, Capitalism, Male domination, Structuration, Marginalization of women, Subversive forces, Feminism

Abstract

There have been so many reform movements and activism to improve the positioning and conditioning of women in various sections of society. Different continents, countries, states, and regions have different forms of miserable conditioning and positioning of women. It has been observed how different areas of the world, have particular and general kinds of misinterpretation and misunderstanding about the role of women as a whole. In this respect, the marginalization of women in most continents— Asian, African, American, European, and Australian, is a common concern for feminist activists and social workers. Women have been marginalized and exploited through different kinds of ideological apparatuses such as education, race, religion, regions, cultures, physical structure, caste, color, sexism, creed, and many others throughout the world. Male Working and dominant class have created symptomatic attempts to make women inferior in different aspects of society, which have been expressed through literary and religious texts and social contexts. Western countries evolved with certain efforts to see interpellated roles of women. Post-1970s witnessed certain changes as well as challenges to fit, converge and make women’s roles more benefitting to society, social well beings, and professional and service areas in the globalized scenario. Despite numerous obstructions and stumbling blocks, women are being identified for equal access to opportunity, identification, and transmission with their male partners. The present research article focuses on the cultural, economic, political, ethical, and educational conditioning of women in the whole world in general and black and Indian women in particular through feminine components of studies. It aims to disclose the liberatory activism adopted by various black activists, marginalized workers, and feminist critics to raise the voice which had been wrapped in the name of race, gender, and color. Women activists in general confronted with the consolidative, oppressive, conservative and exploitative forces which have been dominating the sphere of human affairs. They look into the matter to make a controlled and dignified improvement of the life of women to avoid and discharge them from the insensitive life they are destined to lead. Feminine activists have been consecutively organizing and creating so many cultural, social, and religious codes of conduct with the purpose of bringing materialistic changes in the standard of women as a whole. In the past few years, the human race has witnessed climatic, structural, and functional changes in the conditioning and positioning of women in the whole world.                 

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Published

30-03-2022
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DOI: 10.53724/inspiration/v7n2.03
Published: 30-03-2022

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Dr. Ram Avadh Prajapati. (2022). Revisiting the Feminine Roles through Fresh Lenses: Reconsidering the Positioning Values of Women in the Patriarchal Societies. Research Inspiration, 7(II), 18–20. https://doi.org/10.53724/inspiration/v7n2.03

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