why do feminist thought transitioned frm legal matters during 1st wave to personal matters the 2nd wave?
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To understand this, you must understand the "hidden" goal of many feminist. Many feminist, especially those most viewed in the media, do not truly seek equality but superiority. They first began this quest by striving for "equality" through the legal system. However, the legal system can only ensure women are safe and treated equally in the work force, and that not so well. The legal system can not make society stop viewing men, husbands, and fathers as providers, protectors, and leaders. Nor can it force society to stop viewing women, wives, and mothers, as nuturers, providers.\n\nFor this reason, many feminist have focused on society, the familly, the Church, and all things personal that still holds solemn, supposed archaic, views of men and women. Constantly striving to reverse the God given roles of Adam and Eve, men and women. This will be a never ending quest for these feminist, because God and nature prevent them.\n\nNo matter how many bras feminist burn, or revolutions they ignite, the Church will always hold dear the doctrine of Christ. As well, men nor women will never escape nature, governed by God. The man will always hold the "seed" of children. The woman will always be the barer of children, the nurse, the mother. For this reason, women who desire to be biological mothers will always come to a point, (pregnancy and post-pregnancy) where they will need the man to aid, nuture, comfort, and provide for them.\n\nFeminists will never be satisfied until they realize they can not run from their own God ordained nature. They must recognize that the roles and duties of Adam and Eve, men and women, were not ordained by men, but by Christ.
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Strong words, but to me this sounds like the same basic argument I hear from feminists. “Why have we abandoned the fight?”.\n\nIMO people have abandoned the fight because the fight has been fought and won. People were fighting to be free and to have equal rights and responsibilities. They have those things.  And one of the freedoms they have a freedoms to do whatever the hell they ant with their lives.\n\nIf a woman decides she wants to get married, have 6 kids and be a housewife for the next 60 years many feminists are outraged. When a black man decides they want to work a 9-5 job and never go into debt to buy a house you are outraged. What you are both forgetting is that freedom has to mean freedom. If people aren’t free to do those things just because YOU think they aren’t worthy lifestyles than they aren’t free at all. They’ve just exchanged Jim Crow for Johnson Pressley. Instead of being forced to sit at the back of the bus you would force them to sit at the back without realising that you are still telling them where to sit against there will.\n\nGive it a rest Buddy. Give your Brothers and Sisters the benefit of making their own decisions about how they live their lives.  I agree there are a lot of things stacked against black people in America, but people are free to fight against them if they wish. The point being that they have to wish to do so. You telling black men they have to fight those things even when they clearly don’t want to is simply racism directed at blacks by blacks. If anything that is worse than racism coming form whites. AT least when it was the whites the enemy was outside.
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Feminism: promoting the feminine or the masculine?
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I always tell my mom that as a joke lol. She hates when i do it in public. LMAO just thinking about it makes me laugh. "Damn women, the second we gave them rights, they thought they were people" And "WOMAN! Get in the kitchen where you belong" ....it's even funnier cause I'm a chick.
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I want to say that I am glad to hear women who don't feel opressed.\n\nA little history on the subject....\n\nMany years ago in the US women didn't have all the same priviledges as men.  They couldn't vote or do several others things men could.  The feminist movement rose up and brought about equal priviledges in these areas.  This was a good thing to happen.\n\nAfter that the more radical people in the movement have continued to feel opressed and voice that opinion.  Just because they feel that way doesn't mean they are anymore.  But, in the US small voices can speak very loudly and have a significant impact on things.\n\nMuch of this modern femenist movement looks down on staying home to raise kids, cooking meals, etc.  They tend to look at it as a unisex with the working world as the place to be and if you aren't in it you are opressed.\n\nThis is of course just a point of view.  Cooking can be great fun (I am a guy who loves it).  Raising kids is a joy that people who work miss out on parts of.\n\nI look at my mom.  She doesn't have to do certain labors cause my dad does.  She had the priviledge to stay home with the kids because my dad worked.  She got to be with us kids more often because of that and it's something my dad missed out on.  My dad working gave her so many priviledges in life.\n\nModern psychology, biology, and sociology show that men and women are different.  They crave different things.  Their brains even react differently to different things.  They are physically build differenlty making them more physically suited for certain tasks.  They are chemically different inside.  This also shows that men think more physically and spacially.  It's part of the difference in brain operation.  This is part of the reason men like physical labor more.  The male body is phycially built that way from muscle structure to brain activity.  In turn women are built to carry children and have the chemical and brain structure for a stronger connection to those children.\n\nThis contradicts the unisex idea that we are the same except for our reproductive organs but many deny this.\n\nIt's really a product of the modern feminist movement.
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I would tend to say disagreement.\n\nMany, many women today have reversed their opinions regarding the militant feminists movement of the 1960s. Many women now think it is thier most important responsibility in life to properly raise their children.\n\nThe militant feminist movement of the 1960s did a lot of harm to our society.\n\nReady for some politically incorrect observations?\n\n* Women can't do everything men can do.\n* Men can't do everything women can do.\n* Realistically, women take care of families better.\n* Realisitcally, men are better wage earners.\n* There is a REASON traditional roles of males and females in the household evolved as they did.\n* 5,000 years of evolution can't be wrong.\n\nI am not saying things can't be made better. All I am saying is that Mother Nature has developed roles for men and women regarding families. And many are rediscovering those roles.\n\nBlast away, Feminazis.
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The 20th Century for women was about liberation and gaining equality.  During the 20th Century women got the vote and broke into male dominated careers.  Now we are succeeding in ou careers and balancing everything in our lives.  Thankfully many men out there are willing to their share around the house (my fiance does more than his fair share and to a better standard than me when it comes to housework and cooking!) in order to support their partners.\n\nIn short without all the struggles of women in the 20th Century I wouldn't be a full time Engineer who also  volunteers with Air Cadets in her spare time with the ability to vote and get involved in politics.  I would hate to go back to a time where I couldn't do these things.
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I think that's like asking how a woman can do what she does in a day being a mother, a wife, a nursemaid, a chauffeur, a housemaid, a jack-of-all-trades, an executive, a cook, a waitress...\n\nGod gave women the ability to literally multi-task.  It's a proven fact that women's minds can go in 20+ directions at one time, and still have the ability to complete all she sets out to in the beginning of a day and remember how she accomplished each one.  Men are more main-lined in thinking and once the task is complete, they move to the next one, forgetting about whats been done to get to the end.  \n\nI am not putting men down...but the book, Men Are From Mars, Women Are From Venus is a good example of how both genders work, think and evolve.  And I highly recommend it to anyone who's curious about the opposite sex.
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I think it basically means that a judge will follow precedent (judgements in former cases) rather than interpreting the law as he &#92; she sees it. It was a big point during the recent Supreme court nomination process , specifically regarding Roe vs. Wade.
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The 20-somethings have abandoned classical feminism in droves.  They've seen what its done to their mothers - alone, unloved, unsupported, chronically depressed - and bailed.  Young girls today have largely abandoned the need to "prove" themselves as women, saying that they already are, by mere existance.\n\nPerhaps it was a mistake for the patriarchy to grant independence.  "Beware what you wish for, it might come true".  Perhaps it was a mistake for the patriarchy to abdicate from its responsibility.  \n\nDid I say grant?  Yes, you heard right.  Independence was not achieved by suffragettes, it wa achieved by technology. \n  Male-spawned technology produced fax machines and typewriters that enabled women to work and be independent.  It took the brawn factor out of labor enabling all genders to earn a wage.  Taking away technology would put us back 100 years ... in every sense.\n\nHow fragile life is, huh?
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Though I hesitate to call myself feminist (mostly due to an internal debate over whether a man can truly be a feminist); I do try to uphold some of the beliefs of both the early suffragette movement, and the change in social mores in the 1960s and 1970s. That is, gender (and racial though that is a different topic) equality in matters of politics, socio-economics, and spiritaulity.\n\nAs for reconciling attitudes between my own beliefs and those of the patriarchal religions; quite frankly, I couldn't. Experience with my extended family gave me an extremely biased view of leadership dynamics. Due to my mother's family, I began to tie the presence of strong female influence, leadership and direction to long-term stability and strong ties within a family. This idea was reinforced over the course of three generations: my mother, my mother's mother, my maternal grandmother's mother and sisters, as well as my maternal grandfather's mother and sister all presented strong female role models and true partnerships with their husband. It is interesting to note that while a good number of my maternal great-aunts and great-uncles (sisters/brothers of grandparents) do affiliate with the (Roman Catholic or other Christian) church, the majority are FWEC Christians.\nMy father's family, on the other hand, had a strong paternal influence within the household; or rather, the influence of my paternal grandmother was purposefully muted due to prevailing influence and ideals of the Catholic Church during her childhood. Their family dynamic, in the past twenty years, has been punctuated by arguments, divorce, and what can only be described as very poor judgement.\n\nI never truly had to reconcile my own learned beliefs with those of the church for two main reasons: first, I was not raised in the church. I sought the church on my own around as a pre-teen and chose the Congregational Church specifically because of it's stand on female clergy (allowed).
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So many things happened in the 20th century!\n\nTechnology boomed: If you don't have a cell phone, TV, or computer, you're seen as primitive.\n\nCivil Rights were established:  Women are much more independent now and have more freedoms.  Same with minority groups.\n\nGo with history.  Whatever historical event was important, there are social changes to follow.
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Karl Marx argued that the law is a self serving tool for the upperclass.\n\nThe legislature and judiciary, predominantly, are composed of rich white males. These rich white males are unlikely ever to  make law that conflicts with their interests, so based on Marx's arguement, you could question whether any law is not sexist or racist!\n\nSorry, for the massively indirect answer... i am not american and my knowledge on american law is scrappy, but the arguement above is a feminist arguement and also the critical race theory! - something to think about!
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I think a lot of the writings and research on women and immigration have to do with "mail order bride" situations.  Here are some interesting sources online; you may want to check out the references used in each of these to see if they cite any more helpful material:\n\n"A License to Abuse: The Impact of Conditional Status on Female Immigrants" (Yale Law Journal): http://www.questia.com/PM.qst?a=o&se=gglsc&d=5000169195\n\n"Earnings and Assimilation of Female Immigrants": http://ideas.repec.org/a/taf/applec/v23y1991i10p1665-72.html\n\nThis book may be in your library: "Worlding Women: A Feminist International Politics" by  Jan Jindy Pettman\n\n"Citizenship: Femisit Perspectives" (Ruth Lister): http://books.google.com/books?hl=en&lr=&id=7FunnlQXcdUC&oi=fnd&pg=PR5&sig=syt3R_sYjVo6v-shSFJ3RZg3xG4&dq=feminism+immigration&prev=http://scholar.google.com/scholar%3Fq%3Dfeminism%2Bimmigration%26hl%3Den%26lr%3D%26sa%3DG\n\n"Gender and U.S. Immigration: Contemporary Trends" (Ellen Fleischmann): http://books.google.com/books?hl=en&lr=&id=sRUW9gQ8B-oC&oi=fnd&pg=PP9&sig=teo1KdJjMF2781fJoHl8WXorfPM&dq=feminism+immigration&prev=http://scholar.google.com/scholar%3Fq%3Dfeminism%2Bimmigration%26start%3D20%26hl%3Den%26lr%3D%26sa%3DN\n\nAlso, if your library has access to JStore a similar online-journal service that would be an excellent place to start searching for articles.
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Logical levels of abstraction and specification exist in the realms of the social, mental and physical -> so yes such concepts are a smothering by politically minded people, but also concepts are maintained by those without time to consider such things or minds...... its also worth stating that biological, psychological and social differences do exist and are studied by psychologists, neurologists, sociologists and the like -> however these studies are usually stopped in this politically crazy era in order to stop 'socially sensititve implications' occuring and thus causing mindless racisism and homophobia - obviously we cant go into every element but i think these are key concepts
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The 60's-70's because it was the peak of feminist revolution. The 50's, women still strived for perfection, and by the 60's they realized it was all a false dream, i like this era b/c women began to have a voice.
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By being selective in what we watch and allow our children to watch.  It appears that young women now would rather have a boob job than a university degree.  That means they aspire to be attractive to men rather than to develop their own intellect.  I am also concerned about the increase of pole-dancing clubs, turning women into sex objects, no wonder men have no respect for us.