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Rebecca Walker (born Rebecca Leventhal; November 17, 1969) is an American writer, feminist, and activist.Walker has been regarded as one of the prominent voices of Third Wave Feminism, and the coiner of the term "third wave", since publishing a 1992 article on feminism in Ms. magazine called "Becoming the Third Wave", in which she proclaimed: "I am the Third Wave."
Rebecca Walker in 2003. The term third wave is credited to Walker's 1992 article, "Becoming the Third Wave." [1] Third-wave feminism is a feminist movement that began in the early 1990s, [2] prominent in the decades prior to the fourth wave.
Born in Jackson, Mississippi in 1969, and living there as a child, Rebecca Walker is the daughter of Alice Walker, a Black Protestant womanist writer, and Melvyn R. Leventhal, a white Jewish civil rights lawyer. Her parents became active in the later years of the Civil Rights Movement.
Walker's much cited phrase, "womanist is to feminist as purple is to lavender", suggests that feminism is a component beneath the much larger ideological umbrella of womanism. [15] Walker's definition also holds that womanists are universalists. This philosophy is further invoked by her metaphor of a garden where all flowers bloom equally.
Walker said he thinks his UK research team should include all addicts who enter Recovery Kentucky. “If I had my druthers I would include them,” he said. “We would include everybody.” But the parameters of the study are not up to him, he explained, but determined by Recovery Kentucky – the subject of the study.
Feminist ethics is an approach to ethics that builds on the belief that traditionally ethical ... Rebecca Walker; Second-wave feminism; Sex-positive feminism; Sheila ...
Mary Edwards Walker, 1832-1919. Surgeon, abolitionist, and only female student in her medical school in 1855. Rebecca Lee Crumpler, 1831-1895. The first black woman to earn her medical degree in ...
As second-wave feminism reshaped the nation in the 1960s, a new science-fiction twist to steed-and-rider imagery raised the stakes of women’s bonds with beasts by seating them on dragons.