On Equality And Difference From The Political Perspective Of Feminism

Recently, in western region of thinking and culture, feminism as an important concept is concerned all the while by some disciplines such as politics, sociology, economics and philosophy. The subjects, prospects and research methods of feminism not only help to rich the theoretical frameworks of some disciplines, but also bring significant impulsion to the internal connotation politics. Feminism do not just content with patching up the frameworks of politics, but its ultimate objective is to thoroughly change the current modes and frameworks of politics, by building politics of feminism. For this reason, feminists carry out a lot of positive tries. As far as politics is concerned, the impacts western feminism posed mainly embodies the recognition towards equality and difference in several waves of feminisms, which give huge impact on conventional conceptions of politics and political power. This article plan to research from three perspectives, that is concept and historical evolutionary of feminism, internal logical changes of feminism, and feminism's impacts on thinking modes, proceeding overview of western feminism under the visual fields of politics. Then this article summarizes its anciently main contributions of investigation,and explore currently new impulsive of research, by revealing the impacts and influence western feminism give to politics.This thesis contains three parts: Part one on concept and historical evolutionary of feminism; Part two on from equality to difference: the internal logical changes of feminism; Part three on the impacts on thinking modes of politics posed by feminism.The concept and historical evolutionary of feminism contains three aspects: The first is the feminism as a stream of thoughts, which embodies the meaning and value of feminism as it is the critical thought towards existent social and political orders. Meantime, there are not inherent schools in feminism, in stead, a lot of different separactively thoughts concourse at the name of feminism. The second is feminism as a movement .Feminism exercises some kind of ways to finish several ends with the purpose of elucidatory objects. Only when the pure theories and thinking were transformed to particular freed, method and instrument of action, can feminism as ideology make sense and has true intension of thought. The third is the meaning of make a distinct of feminism's two directions. In the two directions of feminism, the emergence of thought direction posterior to the movement direction, in addition, the thought direction to a great extent derives from the social movement direction which has a prolific intention. It is important to realize that the interaction of two directions make the evolution and development of feminism as an ideology.This thesis discuss the internal logical changes of feminism, separately by resolving the equality cognition of the first wave feminism, the equality cognition of the second wave feminism, and the difference cognition of the third wave feminism, consequently reveal the changes back and forth of internal view of value and internal logic of feminism. The attention towards equality and difference not only is the important contents of feminism's rhetorical evolutionary progression, but also the realization of this two concepts form the important foundations of feminism as the movement and the stream of thoughts, which make the feminism at different era to display its characteristics of development and limitations.This article argues that there exist impacts on thinking modes of politics posed by feminism. This section contains two aspects. First, the internal logical changes make a lot of positive effects on the theoretical frameworks of politics. Second, the critic meanings are offered by internal logical changes. The core factors of the first section focus on the new understandings of equality, when feminists realize the essential differences in history and politics. With the development of feminism, the theoretical frameworks of politics which the feminists adopted are always changing. Differing from the first two waves of feminisms, which draws on to a great extent liberalism and socialism, the third wave of feminism takes a critic adoption of communitarianism. Furthermore, feminisms also riches and deepens the contents of political theoretical frameworks by thinking over their role and influences, and by introducing the practice of feminism movements, which advanced the theoretical feedback degree to particular actual questions. The second section contains two aspects: First, this thesis divides the women status under western tradition between and modern political, which as the essential status. The earlier liberalism feminists think that women posses the reason as same as men from the perspective of liberalism, then they claim the nature rights together with men. The consequent socialism feminist stress on the gender is strutted by society, and as a result which weak the traditional divide between custom and nature. And the third wave of feminism which also has the name of racial feminism focus on the difference and enlighten that the ethics of care is as same as ethics of justice. Furthermore, feminism criticizes the dichotomy of public and private spheres of politics. Feminists clearly realize the private sphere is not the sphere which politics doesn't exist, but actually the private sphere is the most important areas women exercise their power.After early 1970s, when western feminists refute the subordinate status and gender differences of women,granularly they present their explicit political arguments. Among feminisms of liberalism, socialism and communitarianism, they survey their relative civic rights, and pose a great of powerful influences on political theories by claming at equality and rights. The political theories and cultural thoughts should not ignore the ideas of feminism; otherwise they will not refrain from the thought forms with devoid of content. Therefore, Chinese political researchers should face the challenge from the western feminism.