first wave -✔✔✔(1830's - early1900's)
-Women's right to vote, as well as fight for equal contract and property rights
-Seneca Falls
-Susan B Anthony
second wave -✔✔✔(1960's-1980's)
- Focused on the workplace, sexuality, family and reproductive rights/reproductive justice.
- Betty Friedan
- Margaret Sanger
third wave -✔✔✔refers to several diverse strains of feminist activity and study, whose exact
boundaries in the history of feminism are a subject of debate, but are generally marked as beginning in
the early 1990s and continuing to around 2008.
topics of third wave feminism -✔✔✔- Awareness around gender violence: increase in events like
vagina monologues and slut walk
- Reproductive justice
-Sexual assault/rape prevention awareness and reframing
-Reclaiming of derogatory terms (eg, queer)
-Transgender rights
-Sexual liberation
-Intersectionality of issues: for example, gender and race
-Awareness of globalization
-Claiming individualized feminine beauty