People generally afraid of talking about gender because many of them think that the talking would be end about feminism. Then why are they afraid of feminism? Because, these people think that feminism states, women are good, men are bad. And there are several myths about it. People believe that; feminists are man haters, they are lesbians, they want to bring men down and take over, etc.

However, all of us should know that, "Feminism is a policy, practice or advocacy of political, economic and social equality of women and the people who advocate this, are feminists." (www.milwaukeenow.org)

So it can be understood from here that feminists are not against men, they just want to have equal rights.

Feminism has been a prominent and controversional topic in writings for the past two centuries. One of the most important work of contemporary feminist theory is, Simone de Beauvoir's book " The Second Sex". Let's mention the aim of the book with her words: " For a long time I hesitated to write a book on woman. The subject is irrit

Also this liberation must be collective and first woman have to get her economic independence in order to be free.

"It's evident that woman's character -her convictions, her values, her wisdom, her morality, her tastes, her behavior- are to be explained by her situation." (de Beauvoir, 635)

"The title, The Second Sex sums up de Beauvoir's argument: that society sets up the male as a positive norm and woman as the negative, second sex or Other." (Humm, 44)

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