ROOTS AND SHADOWS: A STUDY OF FEMINIST APPROACH

The term feminism was first used by the French dramatist Alexander Dumas, the younger, in 1872 in a pamphlet ‘L’ ‘Home-femme’ to designate the then emerging movement for women’s rights. An anti-masculinity movement of the women for the assertion of their individual rights, feminism is also called Aphorism after Aphra Behn, a seventeenth century feminist and political activist.