Conception Of Feminism

            
             That fact that the female gender has been historically viewed as weaker, more ignorant, and biologically dependent on the male sex is well known. What is surprising, at least to modern eyes, is that this idea held up for so long, and throughout so many cultures regardless of technology, wealth, or education. Any degree of political, social, or economic power that women possessed varied throughout assorted societies. These ran the gamut from what arguably could be called "political equality" to the more common assignment of value determined only by the ability to bear legitimate children. .
             Even under historical constraints, women of history did not accept total un-autonomous control of their fate. The women of ancient Rome took to the streets in protest of a double tax based on their gender to support an ongoing war. They successfully argued that they were already doubly taxed, by their wealth and by the sons they supplied for the war. After winning the repeal of the tax, they returned home to their children and traditional duties. .
             But why? Why did it stop there? Educated Western women throughout the most recent two thousand years such as Christine de Pizan and Olympe de Gouges (Declarations of the Rights of Women) have called for the emancipation of women and female education. While arguing for the Biblical re-interpretation of female roles based on a new understanding of the Hebrew and Christian Bible, they didn't get much farther than public ridicule and unfortunately for de Gouges, the guillotine. Even with the acknowledgement of such radical ideas, until the Woman's Movement of Great Britain and the United States, woman's place in society remained mostly unchanged. The fact that there was a Women's Movement at all is noteworthy, but the fact that it has spanned continents, society stratifications, and gender (the movement had many outspoken male supporters) is unique in the whole of human history.