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What Third-Wave Feminism Can ( and Should ) Learn from First-Wave Feminism ”
| Content Provider | Semantic Scholar |
|---|---|
| Author | Clark, Mary |
| Copyright Year | 2007 |
| Abstract | In thinking about the questions that frame this conference – (1) What wave of feminism currently exists? (2) How is it affecting society and effectuating change? and (3) How is it linked to the past waves? – we thought it might be helpful to highlight some of the most important elements of, and lessons learned from, first-wave feminism for third-wave feminists. “Third-wave feminism” is a term that emerged to describe a set of distinctive themes in the writings of the generation of young women coming of age in the early 1990s. In their work, third-wave feminists have focused a great deal of attention on the cultural and social dynamics influencing their gender identities, sexual choices, and aspirations for their families and careers. This work often appears in the form of collections of personal essays, but occasionally third-wave feminists have attempted to describe a political agenda promoting the personal aspirations and values they have addressed in their writings. When they write in this more political vein, it is clear that third-wave feminists are inclined to reject some of the strategies pursued by feminists of the second-wave. While they often acknowledge many of the successes of the secondwave, third-wave feminists have tended to focus on the shortcomings of the previous generation of feminists. They are concerned that the second-wave feminists’ “brand” is unappealing: too anti-sex, too man-hating, too humorless. However, even in their more political writing, third-wave feminists have paid far less attention to the organizational repertoires and social change strategies of the earlier waves of feminists. 1 See, e.g., Rebecca Walker. Becoming the 3 Wave, Ms. (Spring 2002); JENNIFER BAUMGARDNER & AMY RICHARDS, MANIFESTA: YOUNG WOMEN, FEMINISM, AND THE FUTURE (2000); RORY DICKER AND ALISON PIEPMEIR, EDS., CATCHING A WAVE: RECLAIMING FEMINISM FOR THE 21 CENTURY (2003); ASTRID HENRY, NO MY MOTHER’S SISTER: GENERATIONAL CONFLICT AND THIRD-WAVE FEMINISM (2004); Bridget J. Crawford, Toward a Third-Wave Feminist Legal Theory: Young Women, Pornography, and the Praxis of Pleasure, (14 Mich. J. Gender & L. 99 (2007); DEBORAH SIEGEL, SISTERHOOD INTERRUPTED: FROM RADICAL WOMEN TO GRRLS GONE WILD (2007). 2 PAULA KAMEN, FEMINIST FATALE: VOICES OF THE TWENTYSOMETHING GENERATION EXPLORE THE WOMEN’S MOVEMENT (1992); REBECCA WALKER, ED., TO BE REAL: TELLING THE TRUTH AND CHANGING THE FACE OF FEMINISM (1995); NAN BAUER MAGLIN AND DONNA MARIE PERRY EDS., “BAD GIRLS”/”GOOD GIRLS”: WOMEN, SEX, AND POWER IN THE NINETIES (1996); BARBARA FINDLEN, ED., LISTEN UP: VOICES FROM THE NEXT FEMINIST GENERATION (2001). 3 JENNIFER BAUMGARDNER & AMY RICHARDS, MANIFESTA: YOUNG WOMEN, FEMINISM, AND THE FUTURE (2000). 4 Elisabeth S. Clemens, Organizational Repertoires and Institutional Change: Women’s Groups and the Transformation of U.S. Politics, 1890-1920, Am. J. of Sociology 98 (1993) 755. |
| File Format | PDF HTM / HTML |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | http://law.ubalt.edu/downloads/law_downloads/Feminist_2008_Clark.pdf |
| Language | English |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |
