Volume 10, Number 2
Feminist Perspectives and Social Change
Authors
Neela Bai. R, The English and Foreign Languages University, India
Abstract
The understanding of gender as a social phenomenon and conceptualized from a theoretical perspective is a new recent trend for developing countries. Feminist perspectives on social change offer a critical examination of gender roles, relationships, and inequalities in society. The feminist lenschallenges traditional notions of gender roles and advocates for social change that recognizes and respects the diversity of ways of being a woman.Feminism acknowledges and celebrates the diversity of experiences and identities within the category of "woman," rejecting monolithic definitions of womanhood and advocating for the recognition of the intersecting factors that shape individuals' experiences, such as race, class, sexuality, and ability. In this context, the present paper focuses on the feminist perspective of the change that aids towards women's empowerment. The focus of the paper is on women's development strategies via closing the orthodox norms on women and how feminism implements the agenda of empowerment. The paper also examines the feminist perspective on how gender, culture, and social change are interconnected and the role of feminism emphasizes the significance of challenging traditional gender roles and cultural norms to promote social change. This paper aims to introduce and explore feminist pedagogy in education, highlighting its potential for bringing about social change.
Keywords
Social change, feminism, empowerment, equality, development, exclusion.