女性意识外文翻译(编辑修改稿)

女性意识外文翻译(编辑修改稿)内容摘要：

11 attacks, some mentators have argued that the inequality of women in the Arab world is a sign of the deep cultural gap involved: to reject feminism is to reject modernity and the West. For instance, Laura Bush, speaking on the weekly presidential radio address, on November 17, 2020, supported the Bush administration’s attack on Afghanistan on grounds of the denial of women’s rights by the Taliban. In the sixties, probably even in the seventies, such an argument would have been unthinkable. Many feminists, especially radical feminists, thought that their challenge to male supremacy was also a challenge to the existing social order. Many, who regarded themselves as guardians of that social order, agreed. How has feminism bee an accepted part of modern, Western society rather than an enemy of it? .The emergence of the second wave of feminism in the United States, was connected to a transformation of the economy that was drawing women into the labor force on a permanent basis. Before the Second World War few women worked outside the home after marrying and having children。 most of the few who did were blacks or immigrants. The middle class set the cultural standard: marriage meant domesticity for women. Workingclass people, including immigrant groups, strove to attain this idea. Even the depression of the 1930s did not put much of a dent in it。 many women supported their families after their husbands lost their jobs, but often by taking work into the home. During the Second World War many women worked outside the home, but that was understood as a temporary, wartime necessity, and most women who worked in industrFor women, working for wages outside the home has bee the norm. This, in bination with feminist pressure for greater gender equality on all levels of society, has transformed the lives of . women as well as the very structure of . society. The feminist goal of gender equality has not been achieved。 not only do women still earn less than men, but in the ranks of the poor, single women and their children have e to predominate. The prejudices that discourage women from entering traditionally male fields remain and violence against women persists. Though the nuclear family of the forties and fifties was based on male supremacy, the increasing instability of family life has hardly been a blessing for women. But women’s equality has bee a publicly accepted principle. Glaring deviations from this principle are open to challenge, and very large numbers of women are ready to make such challenges when necessary. This in itself is an enormous and transforming advance. So, over the last two decades feminist consciousness has spread even as the organized women’s movement has contracted. This is partly because of the increasing numbers of women in the labor force, and in o。