Summary Media Studies - Context on Feminism

Context – Feminism
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