Liberalism and the Liberal Radical Feminism in 19th Century

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Assistant Professor, Women's Research Centre, Al-Zahra University

Abstract

It seems incontestable that liberal feminism is an idea far from radicalism. According to the principles of liberalism, it intends to defend primary women's rights, like freedom and equality by "reasoning", and in the framework of "law". But it faced with liberalism order which itself is famous for advocating the same two principles and defending reasonable and
legitimate manners.
The main hypothesis of present article intends to disclose that social and political liberal order resistance to the liberal feminism was for struggle of power. Meanwhile, the study examined the feminism reaction to that issue. Liberalism itself triumphed upon his predecessor with the help of combination of power and reason, and weakened conservatism, but it could not eliminate it. Liberal feminism also tried to prove its own truth by taking advantage of liberal philosophers' thoughts. However, as liberalism did, finally it also knew the necessity of employing pressure, and subverting the balance of power to introduce its own self by the help of power, not reasoning. Since more radical trends inside liberal Feminism movement in 19th century prepared part of the movement resources, we can call it LiberalRadical Feminism.
We conduct this analytical historical study by library data collection.

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