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Second-wave feminism - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia While first-wave feminism for the most part remained shrouded in the "cult of domesticity" that relegated women to their separate sphere of wifedom of and motherhood, second-wave feminism broke women out of the home and kitchen and into the world of independent economic, political, and academic achievement. Second-wave feminism refers to a period of feminist activity beginning in the late 1960s and 1970s. Second-wave feminism also addressed female admission to formerly all-male institutions, especially in the realms of business, politics, and higher education. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Second_wave_feminism   (256 words)

Book Review: Faces of Feminism The second wave encountered greater resistance to feminism than the first wave, which she attributes to the fact that second wave feminism, by its latter stages, was starting to address issues of role change, not simply role equity. The second wave, her domain, is addressed in rich detail, with a clear message: Feminists were never monolithic, but for the most part they could set aside their major differences and work toward the common goal of role equity. After an introduction to the general principles behind feminism, Tobias describes the rise of feminism in the "first wave" (which of course is only called such with the benefit of historical hindsight)-- namely, the fight for women's suffrage and other social and health issues of relevance to women. www.3rdwwwave.com /reviews/femreview.html   (1797 words)

Women's Studies Program Second Wave Feminism in Britain was similarly multiple in focus, although it was based more strongly in working-class socialism, as demonstrated by the strike of women workers at the Ford car plant for equal pay in 1968. In America, second wave feminism rose out of the Civil Rights and anti-war movements in which women, disillusioned with their second-class status even in the activist environment of student politics, began to band together to contend against discrimination. The term 'Second Wave' was coined by Marsha Lear, and refers to the increase in feminist activity which occurred in America, Britain, and Europe from the late sixties onwards. spider.georgetowncollege.edu /ws/1st,_2nd,_3rd_wave.htm   (547 words)

Feminism Theories Defined - Ecofeminism, Individual, Amazon, Cultural, Radical and Other Feminisms Amazon feminism is dedicated to the image of the female hero in Greek mythology, as it is expressed in art and literature, in the physiques and feats of female athletes, and in sexual values and practices. Amazon feminism focuses on physical equality and is opposed to gender role stereotypes and discrimination against women based on assumptions that women are supposed to be, look, or behave as if they are passive, weak and physically helpless. Feminism is theory that men and women should be equal politically, economically and socially. www.amazoncastle.com /feminism/ecocult.shtml   (1323 words)

tsenft: Feminism's Second Wave (1963-1982 The "second wave" of women's activism occurs in the 1960's as a direct result of the suffrage and birth control gains won by the first wave. But first I want to explain something important, which is that second wave feminists believe strongly that the establishment of both "de jure" and "de facto" protections are necessary to insure that women have equal rights as citizens of the United States. As I will detail in the next post, third wave feminism doesn't argue, as post feminists do, that the time has come to be "done with" feminism. www.livejournal.com /talkread.bml?itemid=9823946   (1208 words)

Cool Beans - Breaking the Waves - Introduction The idea that Second Wave feminists believe in identity politics is a generalization that certainly cannot apply to all Second Wave feminists, and the question as to whether identity politics is inherently a negative thing is open for question. This is certainly not a completely new stance to undertake, as many Second Wave feminists have, themselves, talked about the deals with the patriarchy they have made in order to survive, and other contradictions and ambiguities that exist within their politics and ideologies. Second Wave feminists often see Third Wave feminists ignoring their feminist history, eschewing theory and even going against that which many Second Wave feminists had fought for. home.comcast.net /~theennead/bean/intro.htm   (928 words)

Topics in Feminism Feminism waned between the two world wars, to be "revived" in the late 1960's and early 1970's as "Second Wave" feminism. History of Second Wave Feminism (Northern Arizona University, WS Internet Resources). History of First Wave Feminism (Northern Arizona University, WS Internet Resources). plato.stanford.edu /entries/feminism-topics   (6684 words)

MetroActive Features Third Wave Feminism It's no wonder that people aren't even familiar with the term "Third Wave feminism." The more general assumption is that feminism is dead, that the Second Wavers did their work--and not particularly well--and now we're stuck with a bucket-load of unsolvable problems. But their main problem is that Second Wave feminists, and especially Second Wave politicians and journalists, do not share their support of girlie culture. Feminism is not dead, nor has it ever found itself in the throes of final expiration. www.metroactive.com /papers/cruz/11.29.00/feminism-0048.html   (1772 words)

The Collegian Online: Feminism evolves The age of second-wave feminism began in the 1960s and focused on issues important to the civil rights movement. Womens suffrage has become ingrained in society, though some later points of primary feminism, and almost all of second-wave feminism, havent had the time to become second nature to American culture. Feminism is a vital, adaptive force, but, for the same reasons some find it difficult to identify its actions in current events, it is hard to define. www.utulsa.edu /collegian/article.asp?article=2655   (573 words)

SECOND WAVE FEMINISM - SINCE THE MID SEVENTIES In terms of this she describes three different kinds of feminism which she calls "generations" of feminism in the sense that this is the order in which they have appeared although at the moment all three coexist. At the heart of feminism is an egalitarian impulse, seeking to free women from oppresssion by removing all of the obstacles to their political, economic, and sexual self-determiniation. Early radical feminism and even early separatism was happy to concur with a left wing materialist analysis of power in society and attempted to extend this analysis to sexual inequality. www.octapod.org /gifteconomy/content/secondwavetwo.html   (11722 words)

Texas Fathers For Equal Rights - Fort Worth She was told by second wave feminism that her family was nothing more then a patriarchal system in which she cowered near the bottom and, in regards to her relationship with her own husband, she was in a sexualized predator/prey relationship. The battle in which the second wave spent most of its energy was viewed, in the end, as a waste of time and, with that defeat, feminism faded and existed mainly in Women’s Studies Departments at colleges and universities until recently. What affirmative action did for the African American who earned his way into law school because of his GPA and LSAT scores and those credentials alone, second wave feminism did for the woman who was capable in her own right to succeed. www.tferfw.org /TFER/editorials/feminism.htm   (2376 words)

SECOND WAVE FEMINISM - THE OPENING DEBATES Second wave feminism may be seen as a challenge to the idea that economic inequality is the most important source of inequality in two ways. Similarly the second wave followed close on the widespread introduction of the pill in Western societies, which whatever we may think of its medical defects now, certainly acted at the time as a major factor in freeing women from unwanted pregnancy and dependence on men. By contrast the second wave of the feminist movement has called for the breaking down of this division of labour between the sexes and has seen it as part of a structure that oppressses women. www.octapod.org /gifteconomy/content/secondwaveone.html   (14082 words)

Feminism 101 Overall, third-wave feminism may be seen as growing out of a belief that second-wave feminism ignored the idea of intersectionality and falsely attempted to treat the experience of white, middle class, heterosexual women in Western countries (particularly the United States) as representative of a universal women's experience. In the United States, the end of first-wave feminism may be regarded as the passage of the Nineteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, which was the major victory of the movement. Feminism is advocacy for women, and is comprised of a diverse collection of social theories, political movements, and moral philosophies, largely motivated by or concerning the experiences of women, especially socially, politically, and economically. www.umt.edu /wcenter/index_files/Page862.htm   (945 words)

Little man on campus: Second-wave feminism To anyone who has any doubts, feminism, and second-wave feminism in particular, is a theory, and a conspiracy theory at that, since it claims that throughout history men have conspired to dominate women. Feminism is staple doctrine in secondary schools as well, and it animates the child-centred education system and the 1960s' vision its teachers hold. My point is that radical feminism is nothing but a subjective world-view based on a narrow insular and partial view of history. revolution2.us /articles/bin/second_wave_feminism.htm   (1136 words)

midlife mama: Second Wave Feminism, Beauvoir, and me Third-wave feminism didn't spring up because second-wave had "finished" its fight, but rather it was one natural divergence from a school of thought that many feminists felt didn't meet their specific needs. All of this is, in fact, the result of seventies feminism, of Title IX and heightened awareness of gender discrimination in schools and consciousness-raising among teachers. Feminism has always been part of my identity (although my expression of it has changed throughout my lifetime) and when I was younger I took it for granted that everyone (minus the Bad People) was a feminist. midlifemama.blogspot.com /2005/11/second-wave-feminism-beauvoir-and-me.html   (1761 words)

Movement Second Wave Womens Although many books have been written on the first wave of feminism, this book deals with the second wave... This movement which began in the Marxist movement was the precursor of the second wave of women's... The first wave of the women's movement is said to... www.moifem.ca /index.php?C=movement-second-wave-womens&T=0   (476 words)

ASK AMY: FEMINISM While they shared goals with second wave feminism, they grew up with feminism and therefore had different associations. I understand the separation of the "waves" of feminism; first wave suffrage, second wave affirmative action, but what is the third wave? It is also a part of feminism designed to give younger women themselves more visibility as feminists and as feminist spokespeople. www.feminist.com /askamy/feminism/0305_fem5.html   (146 words)

International Archives of the Second Wave of Feminism Webmaster and chief archivist for the International Archives of the Second Wave of Feminism is Celeste Newbrough, a 2nd Wave activist. A goal of the archives is to identify and either feature or link to the locations where ephemera and artifacts of the Second Wave are currently found, and the current whereabouts of its leaders and members. Weisstein is among the unsumg theoretical mothers of the 2nd Wave. home.att.net /~celesten/2ndwave.html   (481 words)

Book Review: Fire with Fire In the early days of the second wave, many strands of feminism coexisted in happy abundance, but through the leaner Reagan years almost all died out except what Wolf calls "victim feminism." A creation of the academics cloistered in their Women's Studies Departments, this form of feminism does not speak to the average American woman. Rejecting the victim feminism notion that power, money, and aggression are undeniably "male" traits that women should not sully themselves with, Wolf acknowledges women's "dark side"-- given the same opportunities as men, we would behave in much the same way (and, she argues, this isn't necessarily a bad thing). She liberates women from the idea that feminism is something you have to study and learn about to really understand, showing instead how women support the women's movement by their everyday actions. www.3rdwwwave.com /reviews/fwfreview.html   (2142 words)

printjre.htm The third commitment, to an intellectual critique, is perhaps most strong among highly educated women, but the early premises of second wave feminism included the necessity to analyze life under patriarchy, to come to understand how women are socialized into certain roles and how they come to internalize their oppressions. She was born in 1971, just at the start of second wave feminism, and she died of suicide in 1999. However, her second book, Fire With Fire, moves to call for "power feminism" that rejects an old bad feminist "hardline" for a kind of "seize the day" program that claims equality and economic empowerment are attainable for women with enough drive and self-confidence. www.barnard.edu /sfonline/ps/printjre.htm   (4299 words)

DAOL: Third Wave Feminist Linguistics: 2.0 Third wave feminist linguistics The term Third Wave feminism has developed relatively recently to describe a form of analysis which is critical of  Second Wave feminism. Even the notion of the status of the variable itself has been questioned; for example, Mary Bucholtz has argued that in Second Wave feminism   Second Wave feminism has achieved a great deal: feminist campaigning and consciousness raising in the 1960s and onwards have changed attitudes to the role of women and have resulted, in  www.shu.ac.uk /daol/articles/open/2003/001/mills2003001-03.html   (918 words)

THIRD WAVE FEMINISM A documentary history of second wave feminism that is a great historical reference for young feminists. Argues that, far from being dead, feminism has thrived and expanded its reach through the direct, aggressive, and revolutionary medium of rock music, and through the role models of performers like Madonna and Ani DiFranco. They speak candidly about how they felt when their mothers told them they were lesbians, their own “coming out” process as daughters of lesbians, and their feelings about sexual orientation. pegasus.cc.ucf.edu /~spark/readlistthirdwave.html   (605 words)

fembib Foss, Sonja K. "Feminism Confronts Catholicism: A Study of the Use of Perspective by Incongruity." Women's Studies in Communication 3 (1979): 7—15. "Femininity and Feminism: To Be or Not to Be a Woman." Communication Quarterly 31 (1983): 101—108. Vanderford, Marsha L. "Her Feminism Doesn't Fit: A Response to Parry-Giles." Critical Studies in Mass Communication 15 (1998): 474-477. www.wfu.edu /~zulick/341/fembib.html   (912 words)

Review of Women of Color and the Reproductive Rights Movement, Vol. 9, No. 1 Nelson's second and third chapters explore the controversial charge that birth control and abortion were tools of genocide against the black community. Her attempt to put women of color at the center of this discussion is laudable and for the most part successful. She argues that these debates must be understood within the larger discussion that occurred about the black family in the 1960s and 1970s. womhist.binghamton.edu /reviewmoravec.htm   (906 words)

savethemales.ca - Gloria Steinem: How the CIA Used Feminism to Destabilize Society Feminism is a grotesque fraud perpetrated on society by its governing elite. There is evidence that the 60's drug counter culture, the civil rights movement, and anti-war movement, like feminism, were CIA directed. Since writing these words last week, I have discovered that before she became a feminist leader, Gloria Steinem worked for the CIA spying on Marxist students in Europe and disrupting their meetings. www.savethemales.ca /180302.html   (1393 words)

Classic Feminist Writings The Women's Liberation Movement by Jo Freeman (1971) A history of the feminist movement in America told from the point of a view of a second wave feminist. Feminism Old Wave and New Wave by Ellen DuBois (1971). The Rise and Demise of Women's Liberation by Marlene Dixon (1977) A Marxist attempt to explain the decline of the women's liberation movement. www.cwluherstory.com /CWLUArchive/classic.html   (777 words)

Feature: The Backlash! According to Faludi, Feminism is finishing its "Second Wave," the first wave being that which occurred at the beginning of the century and before the Second World War. Any future historians of the twentieth century, with their facts arrayed before them, would have to note that the emergence of "Second Wave" feminism correlates more closely to the advent of wide spread birth control than to any other social or economic fact of that time. The Second Wave, she states, was a quest for equality and access to social, political, and economic power. www.backlash.com /content/gender/1996/7-jul96/jpage07.html   (780 words)

Call for Proposals, Women and Social Movements We also encourage document projects with a thematic focus, which bring together documents related to particular themes in Second Wave feminism, such as consciousness raising. The Women and Social Movements website will strengthen its coverage of recent women's history by publishing document projects and documents focusing on Second Wave feminism in the United States, 1960-1990. We also encourage document projects with a geographic focus, which bring together documents related to the Second Wave in one locale. womhist.binghamton.edu /proposals.htm   (1108 words)

Voice of Feminism's 'Second Wave' She skipped second grade and was a high school valedictorian, then moved 1,000 miles east to attend Smith College. Friedan's cousin, Emily Bazelon, said: "Her feminism was an aspect of her humanism, and she really cared about the economic well-being of families and of all people," Bazelon said yesterday. Betty Friedan, the writer, thinker and activist who almost single-handedly revived feminism with her 1963 book "The Feminine Mystique," died of congestive heart failure yesterday, her 85th birthday, at her home in Washington. www.washingtonpost.com /wp-dyn/content/article/2006/02/04/AR2006020401385.html   (734 words)

tsenft: Third Wave Feminism: 1983-today. In essence, third wave feminism is a direct result of the second-wave education received on many college campuses today. In that book, she sort of uses the term "gender feminism" to refer to everything that gives her a headache about the second wave that she wishes would go away so she could talk about empty phrases like "freedom" instead. One of the biggest problems facing third wave feminists (particularly from those who want to revive the second wave) is the charge that third wavers "do nothing" to change things politically. www.livejournal.com /talkread.bml?itemid=9827282   (1656 words)

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