Third Wave Feminism: An Analysis

Reading both the articles allowed me to understand the third wave feminism perspective in a different way there before. Being an African American woman and also a woman of color, the main points brought up in the “Colonize This”. Reading about her experience in growing up as a foreign child in a predominately white community, her struggle was similar to mine. The thing that I find most significant is her success story. She was able to not be a victim of her pass and race, and become a warrior and survivor of it all. The way she explains her pain then how she describes her success through finding a major that she is passionate about. With this reading, it relates to the concept of “doing feminism” because it the narrator begins to explain how she herself developed a passion and a genre where she feels there is something lacking. She is “doing feminism” because she is creating something she feels is needed in our society to help advance the feminist movement. The other reading, “Women’s Leadership and Third- Wave Feminism” discusses in detail the third wave of feminism and how …show more content…
This glass ceiling that has been created to stop women at a certain point is crippling to our society as a whole. Women are so much more than housewives, secretaries, maids, nurses, and etc. Women can be all of that, but also be doctors, lawyers, politicians, entrepreneurs, and anything in between. The third wave approach speaks to me because it is helping me become better. It is helping me excel to new heights that the women who came before me never had. With that I understand that it will be my generation’s job to continue breaking barriers for the women who will be coming after us. The feminism activism and agendas that are taking place now are going to help continue open up doors and make people aware of the unfair treatment women receive in still in our day in