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[madscience]

"Women whose career is to be a 'mother' and nothing else SHOULD BE second class citizens, because they choose to be unemployed." - Frances MartelFrances Martel differs from most other fourth-wave feminists in that her scattered beliefs seem to include a fair number of right-wing talking points. But otherwise, she fits the profile: a twentynothing

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It's Tide Is Still Rising....

[nebris]

"Modern Feminism is generally agreed to have come in three 'waves'.

First Wave Feminism focused on the legal rights of women and traditionally starts with the publication of Mary Wollstonecraft's “A Vindication of the Rights of Woman” in 1792 and culminates with the passage of the Nineteenth Amendment of the US Constitution in 1920 which gave women the right to vote.

Second Wave Feminism started in the Nineteen Sixties, and only really flourished until the mid Nineteen Seventies, focusing upon the socio-cultural perception of women and how that effects women's rights and opportunities.

As most of these issues are still very much unresolved, The Second Wave has not really ended; it merely became diffused by the political and economic conditions of the times.

Third Wave Feminism has a much more complicated pedigree. Depending upon who's talking, it either started in the mid Eighties or early Nineties. It evolved from, and yet is also in reaction to, The Second Wave. It's 'focus' is extremely diverse, to the point where I would say

Re: It's Tide Is Still Rising....

[madscience]

I haven't worked out a definition for the Fourth Wave yet, just a list of "you might be a fourth-waver..." punchlines. Without delving too much into the history, I would say it's the detritus that fell out of the implosion of the Third Wave.

Personally, I think the Third Wave had some good ideas, but the Second Wave was also right about a lot of things. I think there needs to be a "Third Wave version 2.0" that picks up around 1980 and keeps its ducks in a row.