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Third-Wave Feminism
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Wave Feminism is generally identified with a period beginning in the early nineteen sixties. Second Wave Feminism has existed continuously since then, and continues to coexist with what some people call Third Wave Feminism. Whereas first-wave feminism focused largely on de jure (officially mandated) inequalities, second wave feminism saw de jure and de facto (unofficial) inequalities as inextricably linked issues that had to be addressed in tandem.
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[T]hird-wave feminism is about more than just words. According to Baumgardner, it's about a "joy and ownership of sexuality" and "a type of energy." For marketers of products aimed at young girls, it is ... about the bottom line.
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'This expanded second edition of 'Third Wave Feminism' is an unexpected pleasure. While much work on 'the third wave' is ahistorical, nationally-bounded and analytically bankrupt, here the editors bring together an impressive range of articles living up to the volume's subtitle of 'critical exploration'. The anthology provides a historically and conceptually grounded background to the area, highlights the limits as well as possibilities of generational approaches, and constitutes a politically diverse, international set of reflections on the terrain. Essential reading.' - Clare Hemmings, Gender Institute, London School of Economics
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From Betty Friedan to Gloria Steinem and beyond, Siegel outlines a history of second- and third-wave feminism, all the while attempting to dispel the notion that bra-burners and bloggers cannot communicate. In spite of differing ideas about what power, sexism, and feminism mean, these two groups have a lot more in common than they think.
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If you're a Second Waver who hasn't kept up with Third Wave developments and publishing or someone who has limited knowledge of feminism in any guise, the Encyclopedia is a great place to start exploring the phenomenon. If you know it well, it is a handy compendium for reference.
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Issues of race, class and sexuality are central to third-wave feminism. Also significant are women in the workplace—the glass ceiling, sexual harassment, and unfair maternity leave policies; Sexual Assault and Rape; Motherhood—support for single mothers by means of welfare and child care, and respect for working mothers and mothers who decide to leave their careers to raise their children full-time; Women, Politics, and Intellect—respecting women as intelligent, political beings with intelligent, political minds and acknowledging the lack of diverse, positive female representatives in pop culture; The Media—unhealthy standards that women feel they need to live up to, eating disorders, the portrayal of women as sexualized objects catering solely to the man’s needs, anti-intellectualism.
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