Thoughts on Feminism in 20th and 21st Centuries: A Descriptive Study

One of the most arguable and observable societal trend is gender inequality, which is focused on feminist theories. The purpose of this study is to illustrate and examine how feminist ideas and gender differences take place in various literary works, including how literature can, along with its values, reflect human life. Based on the importance of feminist ideas and gender disparity in cross-cultural literature, a descriptive study of literature that focuses on feminist ideas is acceptable. Four types of literary works have been used for this study, especially drama, prose (short story), film, and poetry. The methodology of feminism as a sociological strategy was proposed in this research in conjunction with comparative critique and content interpretation approaches. This work has tackled how feminist theories received more recognition and inspiration as the century progressed. Several significant conclusions can be drawn by contrasting literary works of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, namely (a) feminist thoughts become stronger with the growth of the century; (b) feminist thoughts frequently oppose gender inequality, as both are frequently recognized in literary work as binary oppositions; (c) both feminism and gender discrimination live by human values and recurrent intervention.