Third Wave Feminism

The first wave of feminism arose in the nineteenth and early twentieth century.The first wave mainly focused on women's legal issues especially women's right to vote. The feminists fighting for the right to vote were mostly made up of two groups, the Suffragettes and the Suffragists. The suffragists were quite peaceful in their methods of recognition for women in contrast to the suffragettes who were quite violent, radical in their ways created some bad publicity for feminists and in part created a negative attitude people had towards feminists. The second wave of feminism that took over from the first came about in the 1960’s and 70’s. In the second wave women mainly fought for the equality for women in everyday places like the workplace and
They wanted to society to stop viewing women as less superior to men and the predisposed view that women's place is in the household taking care of the kids and cleaning. Second wave feminists wanted to go into a career after gaining their degrees, rather than getting married and living the suburban life. They also fought for equal rights amendment and equal pay once more women started to go out into the workforce instead of staying home and taking care of the family. Third wave feminists aimed to try and create a better voice for women of all ethnicities and all the classes of society, as many of them disagreed with the second waves radical aspects. Third wave feminists also wanted to create public awareness on the issue of campus date and spousal rape as well as the sexual harassment that was occurring in the
It calls for a radical reordering of a society in which male superiority is eliminated from all social and economic aspects. Radical feminists attempt to reorder the male superiority by challenging existing social norms, rather than through a political route in which they attempt to create legal changes. Radical feminists methods involved direct action to achieve their aims. They used conscious-raising groups, public protests, actively providing services and putting on art and cultural events. A notable protest that was at the hands of the radical feminists was the 1968, Miss America pageant. The feminists were trying to protest against the “sexist beauty ideas and radical expectations” of women's beauty. It is famous for being the place where the phrase ‘bra burner’ was first created, despite no bras ever being burnt at the protest that day, rather the women threw their bras and other items into a “Freedom trash can”. The radical feminist approach was criticized in early years for empahazing sez-based discrimination rather than race- or class- based discrimination.Throughout the years radical feminists were subject to ridicule as most perspectives of feminism were, many men however saw radical feminists as men-hating so they coped more