In a debate at Chowk that centered on the applicability or inapplicability of Western idea of feminism (女权主义) to South Asian women, when asked how she would define the idea of "feminism" that applies to women all over the world irrespective of their race, culture, and milieu, a feminist Chowk interactor replied: "Feminism: a multidisciplinary system of critical interrogation, theory and social action in which the issues dealing with the political, economic, social, cultural, spiritual, intellectual, artistic, racial and sexual and hegemonic (霸权的) institutionalized inequity of women in man-dominant societies are addressed."
Leaving no stone unturned and heavy on words that would baffle (为难) if not completely escape most poor women, that definition echoes more like a capitalist organization’’s mission statement than the definition of an idea that seeks to help downtrodden women of the world achieve a semblance (伪装,外表) of dignity.
To the feminists who subscribe (赞成) to the definition expressed above, all women of the world are "linked" in a sort of sister-hood simply because they happen to live in "man-centric" societies. No matter where they are in the world, women are oppressed. The degree of subjugation of women is irrelevant, no distinction made between a rock and a pebble.
The premise (前提) of the question asked, however, was not whether women, generally speaking, are suppressed in male-dominated societies; generally speaking, they are. But it is whether the idea of "feminism" as it is thought of and practiced by the Western women is applicable to South Asian women.
It is undeniable that non-Western women in mostly economically undeveloped societies face some of the same issues today as Western women did in earlier times. For example, "at the end of the 19th century in France, women were still compelled to cover their heads in public, and, in parts of Germany, a husband still had the right to sell his wife." And on a relatively lesser mean side, "even as late as the early 20th century, women in the United States, as in Europe, could neither vote nor hold elective office." However, "once the crucial goal of suffrage had been achieved, the feminist movement virtually collapsed in both Europe and the United Sates. Lacking an ideology beyond the achievement of the vote, feminism fractured into a dozen splinter (碎片) groups. Throughout the United States, as across Europe, Americans believed that women had achieved their liberation."
Henceforth, despite of its root and setting, the idea of Western feminism was exported to Asia, Africa, and Latin America where Western women were "horrified to discover that women in some countries were required to wear veils in public or to endure forced marriage, female infanticide(杀婴), or widow burning. Many Western feminists soon perceived themselves as saviors of Third World women, little realizing that their perception of and solutions to social problems were often at odds with the real lives and concerns of women in these regions."
Which of the following is incorrect about feminism according to the passage
A.Feminism is a multidisciplinary system of critical interrogation, theory and social action. B.Feminism is sexual hegemony. C.Feminism deals with institutionalized inequity of women in man-dominant societies. D.There was a debate on the applicability of feminism to South Asian women.