third-wave feminism

Examples of third-wave feminism in the following topics:

• Gender and Social Movements

  • Second Wave Feminism has existed continuously since then, and continues to coexist with what some people call Third Wave Feminism.
  • Finally, the third-wave of feminism began in the early 1990s.
  • Third-wave feminism seeks to challenge or avoid what it deems the second wave's "essentialist " definitions of femininity , which (according to them) over-emphasized the experiences of upper middle class white women.
  • A post-structuralist interpretation of gender and sexuality is central to much of the third wave's ideology.
  • Third wave feminists often focus on "micropolitics," and challenged the second wave's paradigm as to what is, or is not, good for females.

• Second-Wave Feminism

  • Second-wave Feminism is a period of feminist activity that manifested in the United States during the early 1960s, lasting through the 60s, 70s, and 80s.
  • Whereas first-wave feminism focused mainly on overturning legal obstacles to gender equality (i.e. voting rights, property rights), second-wave feminism broadened the debate to a wide range of issues: sexuality, family, the workplace, reproductive rights, de facto inequalities, and official legal inequalities.
  • Many feminists view the second-wave feminist era as ending with the intra-feminism disputes of the Feminist Sex Wars , which ushered in the era of third-wave feminism.
  • This book is widely credited with having begun second-wave feminism.
  • Second-wave feminism was largely successful, with the failure of the ratification of the ERA the only major legislative defeat .

• The Feminist Perspective

  • At the turn of the century, the first wave of feminism focused on official, political inequalities and fought for women's suffrage.
  • Currently, a third wave of feminism is criticizing the fact that the first two waves of feminism were dominated by white women from advanced capitalist societies.
  • The relationship between feminism and race was largely overlooked until the second wave of feminists produced literature on the topic of black feminism.
  • This topic has received much more attention from third wave scholars and activists.
  • First-wave feminists fought for basic citizenship rights, such as the right to vote, while third wave feminists are concerned with more complex social movements, like post-structuralism.

• The Feminist Movement

  • The third wave, starting in the 1990s, rose in response to the perceived failures of the second wave feminism.
  • In 2009 and 2010, respectively, Sonia Sotomayor and Elena Kagan were confirmed as Supreme Court Associate Justices, making them the third and fourth female justices.
  • First-wave feminists marching for women's suffrage.
  • The first wave of women's feminism focused on suffrage, while subsequent feminist efforts have expanded to focus on equal pay, reproductive rights, sexual harassment, and others.
  • Compare and contrast the three waves of feminism in the United States and their historical achievements

• The Feminist Perspective

  • Feminism is a broad term that is the result of several historical social movements attempting to gain equal economic, political, and social rights for women.
  • First-wave feminism focused mainly on legal equality, such as voting, education, employment, marriage laws, and the plight of intelligent, white, middle-class women.
  • Second-wave feminism went a step further by seeking equality in family, employment, reproductive rights, and sexuality.
  • Although there was great improvements with perceptions and representations of women that extended globally, the movement was not unified and several different forms of feminism began to emerge: black feminism, lesbian feminism, liberal feminism, and social feminism.

• The Women's Rights Movement

  • Second-wave feminism is a period of feminist activity.
  • In the United States, second-wave feminism, initially called the Women's Liberation Movement , began during the early 1960s and lasted through the late 1990s.
  • Whereas first-wave feminism focused mainly on suffrage and overturning legal obstacles to gender equality (i.e. voting rights, property rights), second-wave feminism broadened the debate to a wide range of issues: sexuality, family, the workplace, reproductive rights, de facto inequalities, and official legal inequalities.
  • This book is widely credited with having begun second-wave feminism.
  • Compare and contrast the first and second waves of feminism in the United States

• The New Wave of Feminism

  • Second-wave feminism distinguished itself from earlier women's movements in that it expanded to include issues of sexuality, family, and reproductive rights.
  • Women's movements of the late 19th and early 20th century (later known as first-wave feminism) focused primarily on overturning legal obstacles to gender equality, such as voting rights and property rights.
  • In contrast, the second wave of feminism in the 1960s, inspired and galvanized by the civil rights movement of the same era, broadened the debate of women's rights to encompass a wider range of issues, including sexuality, family, the workplace, reproductive rights, de facto inequalities, and official legal inequalities.
  • Second-wave feminism radically changed the face of western culture, leading to marital rape laws, the establishment of rape crisis and battered women's shelters, significant changes in custody and divorce law, and widespread integration of women into sports activities and the workplace.
  • Outline the key events in the development of the second wave feminist movement

• What is a Standing Wave?

  • Most sound waves, including the musical sounds that actually reach our ears, are not standing waves.
  • But what if you could arrange the waves so that reflecting waves, instead of cancelling out the new waves, would reinforce them?
  • Instead, waves would seem to be appearing and disappearing regularly at exactly the same spots, so these trapped waves are called standing waves.
  • The next longest wave is the third harmonic, or second overtone, and so on.
  • The waves of the third harmonic must be a third the length of the first harmonic, and so on.

• The Influence of Feminism

  • Feminism in art has always sought to change the reception of contemporary art and bring visibility to women within art history and practice.
  • Feminism has always existed and, generally speaking, prioritizes the creation of an opposition to this system.
  • Corresponding with general developments within feminism, the so-called "second wave" of the movement gained some prominence in the 1960s and flourished throughout the 1970s.
  • During the heyday of second wave feminism, women artists in New York began to come together for meetings and exhibitions.
  • Postmodern feminism is an approach to feminist theory that incorporates postmodern and post-structuralist theory, and thus sees itself as moving beyond the modernist polarities of liberal feminism and radical feminism towards a more intersectional concept of our reality.

• Women's Rights

  • "First-wave feminism" refers to the feminist movement of the nineteenth through early twentieth centuries, which focused mainly on women's suffrage, or right to vote.
  • The earlier forms of feminism have been criticized for being geared toward and focused on white, middle-class, educated women, to the exclusion of the diverse experiences of other women.
  • Second- and third-wave feminist movements followed this initial first wave, working to further combat social, cultural, and political inequalities.