| There is a misconception that the feminism in the West is anti family in its dynamism. In the ultimate analysis, the Western feminism is framed within the attributes of European culture. When the European civilization was in the stage of tribalism, women were in charge of tribal life Matriarchy was the order of the day. When the sense of property became pivotal, men assumed social power bringing in the reign of patriarchy. However, women kept their power of independence intact. After turn of eighteenth century, women reacted to the insufferablity of gender prejudice in the hands of men. Thus feminism was born, putting forward the feminist demands of equality for gender which was in terms of rights vote and right to own property. Women practised the militant feminism within the matrix of family life. |