Feminism

Feminist jurisprudence contrasts the issues of sexuality and the oppression of women in patriarchal societies. Law is not, as it proclaims, impartial and equal, but connects to only the male interpretation of law. Since the ideology has marginalised women the yardstick silences the femineity of law, and assumes women as subservient brood horses. Based on stereotypical presumptions women were oppressed and forced to be subservient to male normativity: weak, emotional creatures, short shouldered, suited only to domesticity and looking after children. These separate spheres of cohabitation were socially constructed to illicit maleness equates strength, forbearance and reverence, wherefore, women, nothing but intolerable children: Schopenhauer, Women (1973).

In our part of the world, where monogamy is in force, to marry means to halve one’s rights and to double one’s duties. When the laws granted woman the same rights as man, they should also have given her a masculine power of reason. On the contrary, just as the privileges and honours which the laws decree to women surpass what Nature has meted out to them, so is there a proportional decrease in the number of women who really share these privileges; therefore the remainder are deprived of their natural rights in so far as the others have been given more than Nature accords: Schopenhauer, Women (1973).