Examples of third-wave feminism in the following topics:
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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.
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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.
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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.
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The Feminist Perspective
- The first and second waves of the feminist movement were primarily driven by white women, who did not adequately represent the feminist movement as a whole.
- Feminist theory is the extension of feminism into theoretical or philosophical discourse.
- Radical feminism, in particular, evaluates the role of the patriarchy in perpetuating male dominance.
- Feminism focuses on the theory of patriarchy as a system of power that organizes society into a complex of relationships based on the assertion of male supremacy.
- The first and second waves of the feminist movement were primarily driven by white women, who did not adequately represent the feminist movement as a whole.
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Behavior and Environmental Influences on Health
- Of the two thirds of the North American population who consume alcohol, 10% are alcoholics and 6% consume more than half of all alcohol.
- Another illustration of this is the finding that feminists are less likely to consider "ultra-thin" the ideal body image than non-feminists, indicating the culture and philosophy of feminism countermands the effects of popular media.