American Studies 1020 Lecture Notes - Lecture 23: Harlem Renaissance, Third-Wave Feminism, Rebecca Walker

• School: Western University
• Department: American Studies
• Course: American Studies 1020
• Professor: Tom Cull

Document Summary

Inherited the gains of first and second wave. Not very different than second wave more of a rebellion against. Embraces diversity while articulating a more fluid and open definition of both women and the word feminism. Celebration of ambiguity refusing to think us vs. them. In the 90"s we see the emergence of the feminist punk movement. Unique because of the emergent forms of social media and do it yourself publications, self recording music to establish a cyber punk presence that transformed oldest forms of political activism. Rebecca walker was the one who supposedly coined third-wave feminism in 1992: significantly more inclusive, bi-sexual african-american from the deep south, explains how second-wave feminism kind of failed to include everyone and keep their motives pure. White feminist in third wave who did the more sexually provocative movements. All these issues feed off each other.