COMS 401 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Second-Wave Feminism, Third-Wave Feminism, Equal Rights Amendment

• School: University of Calgary
• Department: Communications Studies
• Course: COMS 401
• Professor: Samantha Thrift

Document Summary

Waves tend to be associated with a particular issue. Operated in the early 60"s and ended somewhere in the 80"s. Addressed a wide range of issues: reproductive types (the era when the pill was invented), a safer way to prevent pregnancy, women could have more control over when they would have a family. Women wouldn"t be tied to child rearing: end of sexual violence against women, pay equity, media representations of women: Strategies include: focus on institutional change, marches, consciousness raising groups, women only spaces. The decline of second wave feminism: the election of ronal reagan and in turn the defeat of the equal rights amendment. This was defeated and not passed into law and faced huge conservative push back. This amendment was led by a conservative woman. Coined in 1991 by rebecca walker i"m not postfeminist, i"m" third wave. Was seen as responding to and engaging in conversation with the politics and theorizing done in the second wave.