What Went Wrong?
What Went Wrong?
Feminism and Freedom from the Prison of Gender Roles
This chapter focuses on feminism and states that, after thirty years of feminism, culture is much speedier, much more materialistic, competitive, and aggressive. More people work longer hours in more isolating and alienating conditions, and friendship has become a major casualty of our lifestyle; no one has time for it. It describes how feminism is gender neutral and pertains to men as much as it does to women, but that vision has not been pursued in the same way by men as it has by women. Feminism has thoroughly critiqued the traditional female gender role. The problems with the traditional female gender role are not the tasks assigned, which must be done, or the psychological traits associated with it, which are emotionally healthy, but the rigid way in which these tasks and traits were assigned to women alone, at the same time as women were confined only to those tasks and traits.
Keywords: feminism, culture, gender role, psychological traits
California Scholarship Online requires a subscription or purchase to access the full text of books within the service. Public users can however freely search the site and view the abstracts and keywords for each book and chapter.
Please, subscribe or login to access full text content.
If you think you should have access to this title, please contact your librarian.
To troubleshoot, please check our FAQs, and if you can't find the answer there, please contact us.
