The document summarizes the three waves of feminism:
1) First wave feminism from 1848-1920 focused on gaining equal rights like women's suffrage. Writers highlighted gender inequalities and activists contributed to the women's suffrage movement.
2) Second wave feminism from 1963-1980 built on more equal working conditions during WWII and established feminist theories that aligned with the civil rights movement.
3) Third wave feminism from 1990 to present resists overgeneralized second wave ideologies by expanding perspectives to include marginalized groups through postmodern gender and race theories. Writers reconcile feminism with concerns of diverse populations.
The document summarizes the three waves of feminism:
1) First wave feminism from 1848-1920 focused on gaining equal rights like women's suffrage. Writers highlighted gender inequalities and activists contributed to the women's suffrage movement.
2) Second wave feminism from 1963-1980 built on more equal working conditions during WWII and established feminist theories that aligned with the civil rights movement.
3) Third wave feminism from 1990 to present resists overgeneralized second wave ideologies by expanding perspectives to include marginalized groups through postmodern gender and race theories. Writers reconcile feminism with concerns of diverse populations.
The document summarizes the three waves of feminism:
1) First wave feminism from 1848-1920 focused on gaining equal rights like women's suffrage. Writers highlighted gender inequalities and activists contributed to the women's suffrage movement.
2) Second wave feminism from 1963-1980 built on more equal working conditions during WWII and established feminist theories that aligned with the civil rights movement.
3) Third wave feminism from 1990 to present resists overgeneralized second wave ideologies by expanding perspectives to include marginalized groups through postmodern gender and race theories. Writers reconcile feminism with concerns of diverse populations.
The document summarizes the three waves of feminism:
1) First wave feminism from 1848-1920 focused on gaining equal rights like women's suffrage. Writers highlighted gender inequalities and activists contributed to the women's suffrage movement.
2) Second wave feminism from 1963-1980 built on more equal working conditions during WWII and established feminist theories that aligned with the civil rights movement.
3) Third wave feminism from 1990 to present resists overgeneralized second wave ideologies by expanding perspectives to include marginalized groups through postmodern gender and race theories. Writers reconcile feminism with concerns of diverse populations.
First Wave Feminism 1848 - 1920 Literary Theories & Modern Criticism School of Thoughts ● writers highlight the inequalities between the sexes. Gender Studies, Feminism, & Queer Theory ● activists like Susan B. Anthony and Victoria Woodhull contributed to the Feminism women's suffrage movement, which led to National Universal Suffrage in 1920 with the passing of the Nineteenth The word “feminism” has many different uses Amendment. and its meanings are often contested. In the mid-1800s feminism was used to refer to “the Second Wave Feminism 1963 -1980 qualities of females”, and it was not until after the First International Women’s Conference in ● building on more equal working Paris in 1892 that the term, following the French conditions necessary in America during term féministe, was used regularly in English for World War II a belief in and advocacy of equal rights for ● writers established the groundwork for women based on the idea of the equality of the the dissemination of feminist theories sexes. dove-tailed with the American Civil Rights movement. Feminist Criticism explore "the ways in which Third Wave Feminism - 1990 - present literature reinforce or undermine the economic, political, social, and psychological oppression of ● resisting the perceived essentialist (over women" (Tyson 83). Moreover, this feminism generalized, over simplified) ideologies looks at how aspects of our culture are and a white, heterosexual, middle class inherently patriarchal and aims to expose focus of second wave feminism, third misogyny in writing about women, which can wave feminism borrows from take explicit and implicit forms. Feminist post-structural and contemporary gender Criticism is also concerned with less obvious and race theories (see below) to expand forms of marginalization such as domestic on marginalized populations' abuse, forced sterilization, sexual violence, experiences. exclusion of women writers and etc. ● writers work to "...reconcile it [feminism] with the concerns of the Feminist criticism has, in many ways, followed black community...[and] the survival what some theorists call the three waves of and wholeness of her people, men and feminism: women both, and for the promotion of dialog and community as well as for the valorization of women and of all the varieties of work women perform" (Tyson 107). Gender Studies & Queer Theory Critics working with gender and queer theory are interested in the breakdown of binaries such Gender Studies developed alongside and as male and female, the in-betweens (gay, emerged out of Feminism. It is dedicated to the lesbian, or queer). study of feminine, masculine and LGBT identity. Moreover. Richter (1437) reminds us that as we learn more about our genetic structure, the Gender Studies is an interdisciplinary approach biology of male/female becomes increasingly used for the study of gender and the intersection complex and murky: "even the physical dualism of gender with other categories of identity such of sexual genetic structures and bodily parts as ethnicity, sexuality, class, and nationality. breaks down when one considers those instances - XXY syndromes, natural sexual bimorphisms, as well as surgical transsexuals - that defy Queer Theory on the other hand aim to attempts at binary classification". challenge traditional academic approaches and fight against social inequality. Queer theorists References: analyze gender and sexuality as socially and culturally constructed concepts. https://www.nytimes.com/1998/01/17/books/que er-theory-is-entering-the-literary-mainstream.ht ml Therefore, both explore issues of sexuality, https://www.e-ir.info/2018/01/07/queer-theory-in power, and marginalized populations in -international-relations/ literature and culture. Also it’s primary concern https://www.boisestate.edu/genderstudies/why-g is the manner in which gender and sexuality is ender-studies/ discussed. https://www.vox.com/2018/3/20/16955588/femi Is “queer” an offensive term? nism-waves-explained-first-second-third-fourth
Historically, the word queer was - and still can
be - used as a pejorative term against members of the LGBT community.
However, beginning in the 1960s in the wake of
the LGBT rights movement, people in the community sought to reclaim the word queer as an umbrella term for all non-heterosexual, non-cisgender identities.
Despite today's wide acceptance of the word
queer, it is still important to recognize that not all members of the LGBTQ community identify as queer, and may still find the term offensive.
