The Development and Rationality of Western Feminist Movement

Western feminist movement is a social movement for women to strive for gender equality and obtain social status and rights. It attracted the majority of women to actively participate, making the thought of feminist spread rapidly. After three movements, numerous feminist theory schools have been formed. They are with fighting for equality between men and women and women's liberation as the core, have experienced a long-term struggle for development, leading the world's women's liberation, promoting the awakening of women's self-consciousness and the protection of women's rights and interests in China. However, western feminism weakens the difference between male and female from the physiological point of view, separates the relationship between women and men from the gender point of view, and isolates the connotation of women as human beings from the human point of view. The rationalization of western feminism can be realized through female economic independence, updating the real definition of female liberation and updating the theory in accordance with the development of The Times