The oppression of women in modern society as ideology
Does the highlighted sentence mean:
1. In modern society women are oppressed by means of and in the name of ideology. In the nineteenth century, political philosophers began to analyze and question it.
or
2. In modern society women are oppressed. In the nineteenth century, political philosophers began, in the form of some ideology, to analyze and question it .
I think #1 is intended. Am I right?
Text:
As Linda Nochlin has already pointed out in her famous essay of 1971, “Why have there been no great women artists?,” the “woman question” or the “woman problem” was certainly at the heart of first-wave feminism in the nineteenth century, when political philosophers like John Stuart Mill, Karl Marx, and Friedrich Engels began to analyze and question the oppression of women in modern society as ideology (https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=MWcBAwAAQBAJ&pg=PA99&lpg=PA99&dq=%22analyze+and+question+the+oppression+of+women+in+modern+society+as+ideology%22&source=bl&ots=GyfMpU30s3&sig=-AHsP5b0dqN7jQ6h-5Vhs_aqWFs&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjpld6-wOXXAhVIJewKHVSyC0kQ6AEIJzAA#v=onepage&q=%22analyze%20and%20question%20the%20oppression%20of%20women%20in%20modern%20society%20as%20ideology%22&f=false).
Top answer
e. by an ideology (rather than the low position being due to women's natural abilities - or lack of them) So yes, I'd say you are right: the ideology belongs to the systems that the philosophers were criticising. It's not being said, there, that the philosophers were creating their own ideology (although, of course, in a different context, that could be said too) Dave
- e.
- by an ideology (rather than the low position being due to women's natural abilities - or lack of them) So yes, I'd say you are right: the ideology belongs to the systems that the philosophers were criticising.
- It's not being said, there, that the philosophers were creating their own ideology (although, of course, in a different context, that could be said too) Dave
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Hi
I agree it's not quite clear
However, all three philosophers (in different ways) argued that the low position of women was due to social and power structures; and that those structures were backed by a system of beliefs - i.e. by an ideology (rather than the low position being due to women's natural abilities - or lack of them)
So yes, I'd say you are right: the ideology b
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