In the following essay I shall address how my research on feminism and subsequently role reversals, has facilitated me in gaining a deeper understanding of the concepts addressed in my course.
             n 1: a doctrine that advocates equal rights for women
             2: the movement aimed at equal rights for women
             Feminism is a social theory and political movement. Primarily informed and motivated by the experience of women, it provides a critique of gender inequality and promotes women's rights, interests and issues.
             The earliest works on 'the woman question' criticised the restrictive role of women without necessarily claiming that women were disadvantaged or that men were to blame. "A Vindication of the Rights of Woman" by Mary Wollstonecraft is one of the first works written before the 19th Century which can unquestionably be called feminist. She writes a metophor of women as "nobility, the elite society, coddeld, fragile and in danger of intellectual and moral sloth". When analysing the following book we established that Wollstonecraft believed that both sexes contributed to the situation and took it for granted that women had considerable power over men.
             Feminism is generally said to have begun in the 19th century as people increasingly adopted the perception that women are oppressed in a male-centered society. The feminist movement is embedded in the West and especially in the reform movement of the 19th century.
             Until recently the injustice was a work status inequality wihtin the middle class household, for while husbands continued to perform 'class-appropriate' white collar work outside the home, their wives found themselves saddled with manual labour, such as cleaning and cooking. Thorughout the 19th and early 20th centuries middle class husbands engaged in white collar professional and managerial work in business and industry while theire wives engaged in similarly white colla
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