Socio-cultural aspects of Feminism in Georgian and European Literature
Socio-cultural aspects of Feminism in Georgian and European Literature

Summary/Abstract: Feminism is the outlook giving women economic, social, civil, political and cultural rights. In order to achieve this goal, women had to pass a long, difficult but interesting road. On the one hand, they tried to get their place in society and on the other, struggled to change the cultural norms.During many centuries women’s place and action sphere were stricly determined. Women were looked at as human beings having reproductive function, whose main busi-ness was upbringing children and looking after the family. The reasons for becaming interested in the topic discussed are two. First of all, there were too many discussions on women's issues in the 90s of the 20th century, the ma-jority of which led to the shadows of the past: all recalled St. Nino, Queen Tamar (called «Tamar Mefe» – King Tamar) and Aphorism «Lekvi lomisa stsoria dzu ikos tunda khvadia» = The daughter and the son of the king have equal rights for the throne. Our aim is to answer the following questions: why do we still remember the past that can not make any influence on society? And where were women in the nearest past? Our interest was caused by Simone de Beauvoir's work "Second Sex" (published in 1949), which answers the question "What is woman? The author describes women's subor-dination to the species in terms of reproduction, compares the physiology of men and women, concluding that values cannot be based on physiology and that the facts of biolo-gy must be viewed in light of the ontological, economic, social, and physiological context. “One is not born, but rather becomes, a woman” is a famous quote by Simone de Beauvoir.

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