Different strands of feminism
1. Liberal feminism
2. Radical feminism
3. Socialist feminism
4. New feminist traditions
1st wave
Legal and political equality
Suffrage movement
19th Amendment to US Constitution
1928 equal voting rights
Mary Wollstonecraft
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
2nd wave
Sexual revolution
Broader cultural movement
The personal is political
Civil Rights Act
Betty Friedan
Simone de Beauvoir
3rd wave
Intersectional feminism
Freedom of choice
Post-modern feminism
Maternity pay 1986
Year of the woman 1992
Blair’s Babes
Labour’s all women shortlists 1997
bell hooks
4th wave
Social media
#MeToo
Media images of women
Opposition to sexual harassment
Women’s marches