Third Wave Agenda Summary
Heywood, Leslie, and Jennifer Drake. Third Wave Agenda: Being Feminist, Doing Feminism. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1997. Print.
The edited volume Third Wave Agenda: Being Feminist, Doing Feminism aims to answer the question, “What is the third wave?” in order to establish a theoretical framework to define third wave feminism (13). The editors Leslie Heywood and Jennifer Drake collected works from writers, who work as cultural critics, activists, and teachers, that combine research and theories with life stories. Thus, these works set out to address the core of this new feminism: the focus on individual identities. The book is divided into four sections that address a variety of issues in a third wave feminism context.
The first section “What Is the Third Wave? Third Wave Cultural Contexts” aims to define third wave feminism with relation to current issues. The contributor Michelle Sidler directs the focus of feminism towards economical concerns and stresses capitalism as the more crucial issue than patriarchy. Furthermore, Leslie Heywood and Jennifer Drake examine …show more content…
The contributor Leigh Shoemaker examines feminist male identification which results from the fact that “second wave feminism had taught me that, as a girl, I could do anything I wanted to do, but the backlash let me know that this was possible only as long as I wasn’t a girl — as long as I wasn’t soft and feminine and weak” (115). In addition, Jennifer Reed discusses the identification with characters in media in order to create feminist identities using the example of Roseanne. Moreover, Carolyn Sorisio addresses the need to include feminist history in contemporary culture in order to appeal to a wider feminist community. In conclusion, the contributors to this section defined the influence of media on the creation of feminist identities and feminist
The edited volume Third Wave Agenda: Being Feminist, Doing Feminism aims to answer the question, “What is the third wave?” in order to establish a theoretical framework to define third wave feminism (13). The editors Leslie Heywood and Jennifer Drake collected works from writers, who work as cultural critics, activists, and teachers, that combine research and theories with life stories. Thus, these works set out to address the core of this new feminism: the focus on individual identities. The book is divided into four sections that address a variety of issues in a third wave feminism context.
The first section “What Is the Third Wave? Third Wave Cultural Contexts” aims to define third wave feminism with relation to current issues. The contributor Michelle Sidler directs the focus of feminism towards economical concerns and stresses capitalism as the more crucial issue than patriarchy. Furthermore, Leslie Heywood and Jennifer Drake examine …show more content…
The contributor Leigh Shoemaker examines feminist male identification which results from the fact that “second wave feminism had taught me that, as a girl, I could do anything I wanted to do, but the backlash let me know that this was possible only as long as I wasn’t a girl — as long as I wasn’t soft and feminine and weak” (115). In addition, Jennifer Reed discusses the identification with characters in media in order to create feminist identities using the example of Roseanne. Moreover, Carolyn Sorisio addresses the need to include feminist history in contemporary culture in order to appeal to a wider feminist community. In conclusion, the contributors to this section defined the influence of media on the creation of feminist identities and feminist