History Of Third Wave Feminism

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The history and events surrounding feminism and the women 's rights movement occurs in waves. Women’s awareness of their plight as second class citizens began with first-wave feminism (1). Second-wave feminism was characterised by the fight for women’s rights to their bodies. The movement was concerned with reproductive rights and legislation concerning abortion (2). It began in the late 20th century and was not localised like first-wave feminism. Due to the advent of modernisation, the movement involved international organisations like Amnesty International. By comparing the prevalent architectural elements and themes from gender theory such as those listed above, a conclusion can be reached. This methodology is described by Borden as “theorised and interdisciplinary studies” (3). A wide range of elements have been developed from both

The second wave known as ‘woman’s liberation movement’ of 1960s was focussed over liberty, family and other variety of issues. The third wave stemming out in early 1990s dealt with the shortcomings of second wave and was more or less in continuation with it. The 19-20th century period was a time when industrial revolution was taking everyone into a new world where science was slowly making a new course in the development of civilizations across the globe. People were becoming more and more aware with their existence as social beings and were raising their voice against everything that just did not seem quite fit with the society. Male Dominance was one of them. Woman wanted to have a say in important decisions because home-making was an equally daunting task as earning bread for the family!

The old feminism is crumbling because it simply does not answer the needs and questions of the 21st-century women. “Women are the equals of men. Men and women are not separate political classes” (Socialist Alternative, 2). Anyone who shares the desire to reduce inequality and promote opportunity must embrace feminism. “If the future is men and women dwelling as images of each other in a world unchanged, it is a nightmare” (Greer, 2). All of us benefit from the same political circumstances… like freedom of speech, conscience, private property, and the right of self-defense. Any particular man is no more my enemy, no more a threat to me, than any particular woman is. We are all individuals to be evaluated

According to Wikipedia, “Feminism is a range of political movements, ideologies, and social movements that share a common goal: to define, establish, and achieve political, economic, personal, and social rights for women”.

I believe that second-wave feminism began as a result of the fundamental conflict between Americans wanting the comfort of home after World War II and women who were in the workforce during the war.

In our culture today, feminism is wrongfully portrayed upon women. The main essays used within this paper all exemplify feminism, and describe their own point of view upon this issue. The first author is Roxanne Gay, who has earned her ph. D in rhetoric and technical communication from Michigan Technological University and is currently and associate professor of English at Purdue University, and Roxanne Gay published the essay “Bad Feminist” where she speaks about many different variations of feminism while also stating her own definition of the word “feminism”. The second author is named Ariel Levy, who is a staff writer at the New Yorker, and has been called “feminism’s newest and most proactive voice” By Malcom Gladwell. Levy is most known

This thesis will be dealing with the life and work of two most prominent women writers of the 19th and 20th century, Emily Dickinson and Sylvia Plath. For better understanding of complex topics their work reflects, I will describe important events from their biographies. Although Dickinson and Plath lived in two different centuries they were connected by a common thread, the position of women in the male-dominated world. Not only that they wanted for women to have the same rights as men, but also to be free from the roles of housewives and mothers which were imposed on them by a conservative society. They fought for these rights in only way they could, by writing. In order to show the manner in which Dickinson’s and Plath's poems portray gender relations and, more specifically, how they granted women a strong voice, I will analyze several poems and a novel.

Based on the selections by Epstein and O 'Beirne, for the next elected president to be a woman, what would you recommend for a feminist platform that would have the greatest chance of success with American voters?

"Doing Feminism" in the Third Wave." Sex Roles, vol. 54, no. 5-6, 2006, pp. 331-345,

The theme of this weeks readings was activism and activist movements and how they shape feminism for future generations. Throughout this response I will be comparing the three readings for this week, and I will pick out and analyze specific points and arguments that stood out to me, while also mentioning aspects that I agreed with.

First Wave Feminism, or Liberal Feminism, is often times summarized as the Women’s Suffrage Movement, but it fight for much more than the right to vote. First Wave Feminism is better summarized as political and financial equality for women, but it also helped and fought for civil rights. Women’s suffrage was the major accomplishment from the First Wave but isn’t the movement itself. Alice Paul stated after the ratification of the 19th Amendment; “It is incredible to me that any woman should consider the fight for full equality won. It has just begun.” Alice Paul inspired Second Wave Feminism, or Radical Feminism, which started approximately 40 years after Liberal Feminism. Radical Feminism shifted the gear from political rights to social equality. Radical Feminism starts with the premise that women’s oppression is the most fundamental oppression. In particular, the movement asserts that males are always privileged in comparison to females. So Radical Feminism proposed the Equal Rights Amendment, which never passed. Moreover, it challenged the compulsory heterosexuality, a woman can only be successful in society if she is married to a man and be a good ‘housewife,’ which consolidates patriarchy. Radical Feminism challenged many social ideas from reproductive rights to workplace which inevitably led them to examine the traditional gender roles. Finally, Third Wave Feminism, or Transversal Feminism, ultimately seeks to overthrow essentialism, that there exists a single definition of man-ness and woman-ness. Instead, gender is a spectrum of

In the early 1970s, second wave feminists began to focus more extensively than previously on the differences between women and men. Many critics describe this move as an intensity of focus rather than a complete change of direction, because a focus on the differences between women and men was a crucial element of the radical feminism of the late 1960s. In many respects, the ‘difference’ or ‘gynocentric’ feminism that began to emerge in the early 1970s can be seen as the logical extension of the growing recognition by many feminists of the importance of gender as an organizing principle of individual identity and social organization. Taking that recognition and applying it

The third wave feminism has derived from radical and socialist feminism. The third wave feminists re-evaluate and extend the issues taken up by the second wave. They also critically re-assess themes and concepts of second wave feminism. They don’t take up “women” as a general category but focus on the factual and theoretical implication of difference among women. The difference not biological but those that resulted from the unequal distribution of socially produced goods and services on the basis of position in global system, caste, class, race, ethnicity, religion, age and affectional preference. These factors interact with gender stratification. Hence several studies have come up with topic like “gender and race”, “gender and global location”, “gender and caste etc. These studies show an intricately inter-woven system of caste, class, race, gender and global expression and privileges. This oppressive system produces pathological attitude, actions and personalities such pathological personalities came up in new feminist movement. Hence this is called as global movement and futurist movement of the 21st

5). The first wave feminists are regarded as the ‘godmothers’ of feminism because they claimed for controversial and critical changes, which then became part of women’s lives (Baumgardner & Richards, 2000; Henry, 2004; Heywood, 2006, as cited in Ewig & Ferree, 2013, p. 448). They laid the ground for further following feminists’ waves and movements, as for example the second wave of feminism (1960s – 1970s). Intersectionality was one of the ground-breaking differences in comparison to the first wave of feminism. The second wave feminists included a variety of women, other than just the white-bourgeoisie western women. Therefore, the inclusion of ‘oppressed’ groups, such as women of colour, with different sexualities beyond heterosexuality, of different economic backgrounds and further aspects took place, to a large extent, throughout the second wave of feminism (Krolokke & Sorensen, 2005, p. 1). Women all over the globe fought for their rights in as well as outside the labour market (ibid., p. 8). Several outcomes emerged through the waves of feminism and feminist movements. Not only could they, as social agents, lead to a new form of