External and Internal Virtue Laid for Woman: Arguments and Criticism Through Feminist Theorists Mary Wollstonecraft and Simone de Beauvoir

Abstract

This paper aims to argue about the goals of feminism and the feminist education that include dismantling the system of oppression in the society it highlights class, gender and the disparities and its main focus is to seek new way of constructing knowledge. Feminism is based on two premises one is gender difference and inequality between sexes this gender difference is the foundation of structural inequality between men and women due to which women suffer social injustice. The inequality between the sexes that is male and female is not because of biological necessity and it produced by the cultural construction of the term called gender and its differences. Sex here refers to the identity that based on biological category that is male and female. So, woman should be tender, soft, domestic, submissive, good wife and a mother as like woman man also restrained into some stereotype that if you are a man, you should not cry, he should be bold. So, patriarchy is a belief that both nature and culture have made men superior to women. woman have historically been treated as inferior and secondary unto men for three such reasons. One is she explains that the society teaches woman that all female should fulfil male’s need and therefore exist in relation to men.  The second thing is to follow external cues to seek validation of their worth. Her third reason is that females have historically had far fewer legal rights and therefore less public influence. This paper argues and concludes that she has been oppressed and taught and childhood depression and the necessity of modesty and the distinguish between external virtue and the internal virtue. she although points out the duties of motherhood and domestic life seen as vital building block and the society’s pressures against women to care primarily about the external beauty for long time that leads to unhappiness and family bond. She also argues for women that they deserve protection of civil law in order to support them in fulfilling their duties. They should also have the option of studying medicine, politics, and business.