Third Wave
I want to do my research paper on Third Wave feminism. Third Wave feminism is part of a three piece time period of feminism.The name comes from the idea that there have been three major times when feminism was popular or making great strides.
First Wave was white women wanting the right to vote. Second Wave Feminism was roughly in the 1970’s and was about stopping domestic abuse, advancing women's rights in the workplace and the start of including women of color in feminism, it also was the start of lgbt rights. When Second Wave feminism was attacked by the straight white males of people magazine and wall street, the teenagers of the late 1980’s started up Third Wave feminism. During the 1990’s this was more focused on cultural/social feminism rather than the politics of the previous waves. It focused on rape culture, women’s safety, oversexualization, and very heavily on lgbtqa+ rights and trans inclusion to feminism. …show more content…
Social feminism is such a hard thing to implement and of course it takes a lot of time, but already we can see the effects especially in the lgbt communities. The suicide rates of trans people has decreased significantly. More women are finding support and safe spaces to go to and speak in about there sexual abuse, and more teenagers and young adults have a greater understanding of feminism than before, and women in religiously overbearing countries have been able to be brave enough to fight against it bring about more women's education, more abuse survivor safe spaces, and pride in themselves and their
I want to do my research paper on Third Wave feminism. Third Wave feminism is part of a three piece time period of feminism.The name comes from the idea that there have been three major times when feminism was popular or making great strides.
First Wave was white women wanting the right to vote. Second Wave Feminism was roughly in the 1970’s and was about stopping domestic abuse, advancing women's rights in the workplace and the start of including women of color in feminism, it also was the start of lgbt rights. When Second Wave feminism was attacked by the straight white males of people magazine and wall street, the teenagers of the late 1980’s started up Third Wave feminism. During the 1990’s this was more focused on cultural/social feminism rather than the politics of the previous waves. It focused on rape culture, women’s safety, oversexualization, and very heavily on lgbtqa+ rights and trans inclusion to feminism. …show more content…
Social feminism is such a hard thing to implement and of course it takes a lot of time, but already we can see the effects especially in the lgbt communities. The suicide rates of trans people has decreased significantly. More women are finding support and safe spaces to go to and speak in about there sexual abuse, and more teenagers and young adults have a greater understanding of feminism than before, and women in religiously overbearing countries have been able to be brave enough to fight against it bring about more women's education, more abuse survivor safe spaces, and pride in themselves and their