rights for women and the opposition to chattel marriage and ownership of married women by their husbands. However, by the end of the nineteenth century,
activism focused primarily on gaining political power, particularly the right of womens suffrage.
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Several of women have opportunities to live free from fear and enjoy feeling any types of love, especially when they were married without
choice in childhood and have not recourse from bad marriage
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Feminism tells about a main problem of feminism and its relevance explained feminism was an unconsciousness of women oppression and
exploitation in the society whether in public sphere work or private sphere family and a conscious conduct by women or men to change it.
2. Liberal Feminism
Liberal feminism was born amid ferment in Europe over individual right in a limited state with lines clearly between private lives and public actions,
including market activity. Public-private line drawn differently throughout the world and in various world religions, spread with the extension of the modern
state during the colonial era. Liberal feminism, male and female alike, sought legal change to educated women, to enfranchise them with political rights and to
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http:en.wikipedia.orgwikiFeminismHistory retrieved 21 july 2009.
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Martha C. Nussbaum, Women and Human Development. Cambridge University Press 2000. p. 1
create equal entitlement and playing field on which to compete for opportunities and resources.
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Liberal feminism describes the difference of liberal thought dominant in western society, since the enlightenment and affirms that existing political
processes under democracy can address women’s subordinate social position
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. For liberals the key of fight is access to education; following Mary
Wollstonecraft. It is argued that if men and women are educated equally in the society. It follows that they will get equal access to society.
The liberal feminism views women owning place of freedom and individually. The current information was explained that similarity and freedom
take root at dissociation and rationalities between private and public world
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. A woman has to prepare herself, so that they can compete in the world in framework
“free computation and have the same position with a man. This theory can support in freedom and equivalence of rationalities. Women are rational creatures
who have ability to be equal with men, so that they have right to give it back to men.
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Kathleen Staudt. Policy Politics and Gender, women gaining ground 1998, p.22
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Jane Pilcher and Imelda Whelehan, Fifty Key Concepts in Gender Studies. Sage Publications London. Thousand Oaks. New Delhi 2004. p. 48
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http:id.wikipedia.orgwikifeminisme. retrieved 21 july 2009.
Based on the theoretical of liberal feminism about women equality with men and these will be rationalities
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. The right to move forward that is equal opportunity just given for men, in consequence, they claim that the equal right of
principle is immediate executed. Therefore, the opinion of liberal feminism that
patriarchal system has to be broken with the attitude. that is changed to reach individual, especially a women attitude in her relation with men, and to make
upright that the women must be enough in various role, social, economics, and politics, so that they will become same position with men in any aspects of life.
Liberal feminism is character, which is formed by an individualistic pressure on right equality.
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Although liberal feminism said, that to push all equal between women and men in the society. In some cases especially related to
reproduction function, this current is still considered necessary in the existence of difference. Therefore, liberal feminism opinions do not change structurally or
totally but it is enough by involving women in various roles, like social role, economics, and politics.
This liberal position is broadly held to be the dominant, ‘common sense’ stance on feminism, applicable to the majority of women who identify as
‘feminist’ in some way, but it does not want to overturn the social status quo in order to achieve better social conditions for women. In addition, liberal feminist
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Euis Amalia, Pengantar Kajian Gender. Pusat Studi Wanita. Jakarta 2003. p. 93
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http:feminism.suite101.comarticle.cfmtypes_of_feminism retrieved 21 july 2009
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would be more likely to accept limitation of terms that women and men might well be suited to the separate spheres of home, the workplace and simply lobby
for greater recognition of housework and caring the wages for housework debate in the 1970s emerged largely from this position.
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Liberal feminism is the personal interactions of men and women as the starting ground from which to transform society into a more gender-equitable
place liberal feminism and tends to have a neutral vision towards different gender; it requires women to mold themselves for fit citizenship that it perceived to have
already been constructing in the welfare of men. Liberal feminism was rooted
thinking to the classic liberal that is individuals should be free to develop their own ability in persuading the interest.
3. Character
