The Essence of Feminism
Feminism is a profoundly moralistic movement.
It is a system of ideas that not only states or argues for certain items of knowledge, or facts, but gives guidelines as to how to live.
Kirsten Birkett
Although this may seem strange in our post-modern world where no one is supposed to tell us how we 'ought' to live, feminism is strongly directive as to what we ought to do. Feminism is a way of life, a way of making decisions, something that will influence life choices and affect the basic values on which individual lives and society is run. In other words, it is a highly moral ideology.
