The feminist movement is a react against the sexist ideology which allows men to hold leadership positions over women because of their biological superiority. Feminism disagrees with those who call for the sexist ideology because they ignore the women’s role in the societies and marginalizing them by casting them as incapable than men. It is important to note that the feminist movement has been under numbers of serious historical stages. Stephanie Riger records that,
The first stage in this model encompasses the birth of the organization, and the second stage contains high cohesion and commitment. In the third stage, the organization institutionalizes its policies and procedures, and it expands and decentralizes in the fourth stage.278
Feminist writers aim at renew the shape of the relationship between the two genders by asking for women’s rights. Feminist writings aspire to remove the standards of the patriarchy which is defined by Hans Bertens as “ a term that referred to the (almost) complete domination of men in Western society (and …show more content…
Actually, plath’s personal life creates her feminist characteristic and develops the feminist themes of her 224 poems. Her poems are mainly interested in politics and gender issues. She focuses on many feminine themes such as liberation of the females, isolation and selfhood, maternity, death and life, love and marriage. Plath protests against many ideas of the masculine society and stands against the sexist aphorism that says, “Women are another category of handicap”. Further more, in most of her poems she describes how men are sexist because they ” promote the belief that women are innately inferior to men” (Tyson