Mina Loy's Feminist Movement
The dawn of the twentieth century was a period of changes in every aspect of the daily lives of women, not only in the domestic sphere but also in the public one. The women’s feminist movement, which emphasized on advocacy of equal rights between women and men, formed women’s organizations, and the rise of a whole new generation of female artists and professionals totally altered the traditional patriarchal social structure all around the globe. These social changes, followed by the advent of World War I, were implemented at the beginning of the century and further developed as women entered into the workforce as well as, exposing themselves to a male-dominated political and professional situation. These were the alterations that motivated
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Mina Loy’s “Feminist Manifesto” was written in 1914, but never got published, probably because of its extremely radical ideas. It was written in a historical period during which feminist activism had intensified in England by Christabel Pankhurst and other suffragettes’ civil disobedience. The manifesto was and still is considered to be radical and opposing to all other beliefs of women’s right as Mina Loy gets a distance from the contemporary feminist movement and even though the feminist movement supported the equality between women and men, it adopts a totally different aspect and gives a brand new definition of what a feminist should be like. Therefore, according to the “Feminist Manifesto”, a feminist is a human being, a woman who is superior to the male sex and should be considering men as an enemy who no matter what, will always be unequal to her. Throughout the text, the author encourages the belief that a woman should be fully discharged of her femininity as well as her sexual needs because that is the only way in which she can truly be a feminist. Furthermore, Loy claims that reformation is not the method of change of the feminist movement, but the “absolute demolition” of it. She encourages and calls for the abandonment of all the social as well as
Mina Loy’s “Feminist Manifesto” was written in 1914, but never got published, probably because of its extremely radical ideas. It was written in a historical period during which feminist activism had intensified in England by Christabel Pankhurst and other suffragettes’ civil disobedience. The manifesto was and still is considered to be radical and opposing to all other beliefs of women’s right as Mina Loy gets a distance from the contemporary feminist movement and even though the feminist movement supported the equality between women and men, it adopts a totally different aspect and gives a brand new definition of what a feminist should be like. Therefore, according to the “Feminist Manifesto”, a feminist is a human being, a woman who is superior to the male sex and should be considering men as an enemy who no matter what, will always be unequal to her. Throughout the text, the author encourages the belief that a woman should be fully discharged of her femininity as well as her sexual needs because that is the only way in which she can truly be a feminist. Furthermore, Loy claims that reformation is not the method of change of the feminist movement, but the “absolute demolition” of it. She encourages and calls for the abandonment of all the social as well as