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Second-wave feminists viewed popular culture as sexist, and created pop culture of their own to counteract this. "One project of second wave feminism was to create 'positive' images of women, to act as a counterweight to the dominant images circulating in popular culture and to raise women's consciousness of their oppressions." [94]
Many historians view the second-wave feminist era in America as ending in the early 1980s with the intra-feminism disputes of the feminist sex wars over issues such as sexuality and pornography, which ushered in the era of third-wave feminism in the early 1990s. [130]
The CWMA collection is a key reference source for researchers interested in the history of second wave feminism in Canada. The CWMA collection also provided the basis for the University of Ottawa Library's Women’s Archives which features approximately 170 archival fonds of women and organizations that worked to improve the status of women ...
1963: The Feminine Mystique was published; it is a book written by Betty Friedan which is widely credited with starting the beginning of second-wave feminism in the United States. [ 4 ] [ 5 ] Second-wave feminism was a period of feminist activity and thought that first began in the early 1960s in the United States, and eventually spread ...
It is now considered a turning point in the history of radical feminism and one of the founding documents of lesbian feminism redefining the term "lesbian" as a political identity as well as a sexual one. It was written by a group of lesbian radical feminists who formed the group Radicalesbians or, originally, the Lavender Menace.
Third-wave feminism brings a new perspective to the table. Feminists can love men (or be men!), own aprons, and appreciate romantic gestures. They can also loudly and subversively fight for women ...
Second-wave feminism was in response to women entering the labor market and higher education in large numbers, and having the ability to decide their own trajectory within these domains. Third-wave was about having full legal equality under the law, including the right to control their bodies in the same way men could.
Whether you're looking to brush up on the early days of the movement or simply be astounded at how far we've come, these are the perfect feminist reads for WHM.