What's different about the Third Wave?
The Third Wave is a
Controverial Term
When did it begin?
What
distinguishes it from the Second Wave?
When and
why did the second wave end?
Who is a part of the
third wave and who
is not?
History of Organized
Feminism
1st Wave Feminism 1848-1920
1848
Seneca Falls Convention
The Declaration
of Sentiments
Lucretia Mott
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Susan B. Anthony
Issues
suffrage
access to the professions
legal personhood for married women
Progressive Era (1890-1913)
these plus
Birth Control (Margaret
Sanger)
Tactics
organizing
coalition building with abolitionists, progressives,
temperance movement
argument, persuasion, appeals to Church goers, morality
eventually, protest tactics
civil disobedience, sit-ins, hunger strikes
End of 1st Wave
1920 19th Amendment
2nd Wave Feminism
1963-1989
1963 publication of Betty Friedan's The
Feminine Mystique
Kennedy Administration forms Commission on Women
1964 Civil Rights Act
Title VII, employment discrimination, sex
included
Cross fertilization with
Civil Rights Movement, anti-war movement
Issues
the personal is political
"cultural politics"
enforcement of discrimination law
glass ceiling, pay gap, maternity leave, Title IX (1973)
ERA
reproductive rights
Tactics
consciousness raising
changing behaviors, having the hard conversations
organizing
National Organization for Women 1966
legal
and constitutional strategies
lobbying
educational change
Third Wave
What's different about the Third Wave?
Who comprises the Third
Wave?
Rebecca Walker, Jennifer Baumgartner, Inga Muscio
Pop
culture
Madonna, Courtney Love/Hole
Hole,
Doll Parts
I am doll eyes
Doll mouth
Doll legs
I am doll arms
Big veins
Dog bait
Yea they really want you
They really want you
They really do
Yea they really want you
They really want you
But I do too
I want to be the girl with the most cake
Generational shift
Gen X vs. Baby Boomers
Differences in Style and Substance
Not
purely generational
e.g. bell hooks
also about substance, issues, perspective**
Issues
Tactics
Three Sector Model
Venn Diagram
Bibliography
Baumgardner, Jennifer and Amy
Richards. 2000. Manifesta: Young Women, Femisim, and
the Future. New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux. http://www.manifesta.net/
Heywood, Leslie, and Jennifer Drake, eds.
1997. Third Wave Agenda: Doing Feminism, Being
Feminist.
Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press.
Orr, Catherine M. 1997. “Charting the Currents of the Third Wave.” Hypatia. Vol. 12, no. 3 (Summer 1997): 29-45.
Walker, Rebecca, ed. 1995. To be Real: Telling the Truth and Changing the Face of Feminism. New York: Anchor Books.
http://www.thirdwavefoundation.org/