NAME: GBENLE OLORUNOJE ISAAC 

MAT NO: 170108041

COURSE CODE: CRA 310.
COURSE TITLE: RESEARCH METHODS. 

CULTURAL FEMINISM AND FEMINIST AESTHETICS IN THE SOCIETY.

CHAPTER 1.

INTRODUCTION. 

1.0 BACKGROUND 

Feminism as literary theory is an ideology which tends towards female liberation in

society. According to Scholars , Feminism as an ideology of social commitment to the
struggle for female liberation in the society through conscious and collective effort.
Feminist criticism proceeds from the assumption that “the history of all the societies,
is the history patriarch of male domination and exploitation of women” a situation
which has hindered the actualization of women’s possibilities aid potentials in all
fields of human Endeavour. 
Women all over the world are crying for the liberation of their identity, women are
only seen but not to be heard, due to the belief that they are weaker set, men take over
every aspect of life thereby subjecting women to the domestic slave, Feminism  like a
maximum is concerned about societal inequalities. It is also a literary ideology
founded on the need to develop a female tradition of creative to cause awareness on
the high of women as the oppressed, deprived subjected and unfulfilled gender

It is against this background that I propose the project of “Cultural Feminism in The
society. A case study of Ola Rotimi’s Our Husband has Gone Mad Again and Femi
Osofisan’s Morountodun.”

1.1 RESEARCH QUESTIONS.

0. What is feminism? 
Feminism is a social and political movement. Feminism is about changing the way
that people see male and female rights (mainly female), and campaigning for equal
ones. Somebody who follows feminism is called a feminist.
Feminism began in the 18th century with the Enlightenment. The controversy over the
differences between the genders led to the discussion of equality.
The word "feminism" comes from the French word "féminisme". This medical term
was used to describe masculine women or men with feminized traits. When its use
became popular in the United States of America, it was used to refer to groups of
women who "asserted the uniqueness of women, the mystical experience of
motherhood and women's special purity
0. What is Cultural Feminism 

Cultural feminism, the view that there is a "female nature" or "female essence",
attempts to revalue and redefine attributes ascribed to femaleness.[1] It is also used to
describe theories that commend innate differences between women and men.[2]
Cultural feminism diverged from radical feminism, when some radical feminists
rejected the previous feminist and patriarchal notion that feminine traits are
undesirable and returned to an essentialist view of gender differences in which they
regard female traits as superior.

1.2 AIM AND OBJECTIVES.

The aim of this paper is to examine the Cultural Feminism and Feminist Aesthetics in
the society by carefully reviewing the play “ Our Husband has gone mad again by Ola
Gladstone Rotimi.”

OBJECTIVES.
0. To Examine cultural Feminism in Nigeria. 
0. To discuss the Feminist Aesthetics in the play Our Husband has Gone
Mad again.
0. To explore the ways theatre and drama is used to address  Feminism in
the society.

1.3 RESEARCH METHODOLOGY.

This project will adopt a mixed method of research which involves the use of textual
analysis and library based research. 

1.4 SCOPE OF THE STUDY. 

  This paper is written essentially to examine Feminist aesthetic, using two carefully,
selected play as primary data, Ola Rotimi’s Our husband has gone mad again and
Femi Osifisan’s Morountodun. Using radical feminism to show that women should be
treated equally as men and that gender difference is no excuse for maltreatment. This
work aims at bringing out how cultural practices affect women, the pain it brings and
the overall survival of female gender, the roles they could play in their community to
make the society a better place it also focuses on how women have struggled side by
side with their male counterparts against the general injustice and oppression that the
few privileged.

1.5 LIMITATION OF THE STUDY. 

There are various effects of Feminism in the society. However, this research will
focus mostly on the Feminist Aesthetics in Nigeria. 
1.6 SIGNIFICANCE. 

This Paper is Significant and Relevant because it’s gives an insight has to what
Feminism and Feminist Aesthetic really is in the society. This study will serve as
reference materials to researchers and scholars who are interested in this area of study.
Furthermore, it will improve on the already existing knowledge in this area of study. 

1.7 THEORETICAL FRAMEWORK.

For the Paper I’ll be making use of the Cultural Feminism theory. 
Cultural feminist theory appeared in the 1970s to explain how male-defined
constructions of “woman” devalue female traits.Mary Daly, a cultural feminist
theorist, linked "female energy", or her term Gyn/Ecology, to the female "life-
affirming, life-creating biological condition" that is victimized by male aggression as
a result of "male barrenness"Adrienne Rich asserts that female biology has “radical”
potential that has been suppressed by its reduction by men.Some cultural feminists
desired the separation of women-only, women-run centers and spaces to “challenge
negative gendered constructions.”This form of separatism within cultural feminism
was criticized for ignoring structural patriarchy to instead blame men as individuals
for women’s oppression.[14] In addition to physical separation, cultural feminists
called for “separation from male values.”