Feminism(s): The Four Waves

17 Fevereiro 2020, 18:00 • Ana Maria Seabra de Almeida Rodrigues

Origins and foundations of second-wave feminism. Liberal, radical and cultural feminism. The backlash and the critique of second-wave feminism. Third-wave feminism: girl power, riot grrrls and guerrilla girls. #MeToo and fourth-wave feminism.

 

Presentation (by Rayssa Neves) and discussion of the article of Stacy Gillis & Rebecca Munford, “Genealogies and generations: the politics and praxis of third wave feminism”, Women's History Review, 13:2, 2004, pp. 165-182.

 

References:

 

BURKETT, Elinor and Laura Brunell, “Feminism”, Encyclopaedia Britannica, online: https://www.britannica.com/topic/feminism

 

DEAN, Jonathan, “Who’s Afraid of Third Wave Feminism? On the Uses of the ‘Third Wave’ in British Feminist Politics”, International Feminist Journal of Politics, 11-3 (2009) pp. 334-352.

 

MANN, Susan Archer and Douglas J. Hufmann, “The Decentering of Second-Wave Feminism and the Rise of the Third Wave”, Science & Society, 69-1 (2005) pp. 56-91.

 

TONG, Rosemarie, Feminist Thought: A Comprehensive Introduction, London/N.Y., Routledge, 1989.