Could feminism have happened if arranged marriage were still the Western custom

What if the assumption was that parents picked for their children (though did NOT absolutely foce their choices)

Could other changes in attitudes to sex have still happened?
 
I would define a society as feminist (or perhaps more appropriately not anti-feminst) if it recognizes the sexes as fully equal all aspects social interaction - including marriage and rights therein.

I see no logical reason why a society which is based on arranged marriages to cement family ties and confer status on families and offspring could not also consider women fully equal to men. If the family/clan decisions incorporate equally the concerns of the elder women and elder men, and the children being married off have an equal say (none) in what happens to them, males and females have the same rights. So I'd take it even farther. Even if the marriages were forced at spearpoint, this has nothing to do with gender distinctions(except with respect to homosexuals, of course).
 

Neroon

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Given that, when the suffragete movements started most marriages in the western world were still de-facto arranged (especially the upper class and upper middle class,that most suffragettes hailed from), i'd say yes.
 
I think what he is trying to imply that a man that didn't love his wife wouldn't support her in a radical movement. Which sounds logical
 
I think what he is trying to imply that a man that didn't love his wife wouldn't support her in a radical movement. Which sounds logical

It makes sence I guess. On the other hand, I think it would make some women angry and increase the power of a feminist movement. I say a movement because the butterflies will make it different.
 
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