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Article: Harvesting our strengths: third wave feminism and women's studies.
- Article from:
- Journal of International Women's Studies
- Article date:
- April 1, 2003
- Author:
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When we approached the directors of the Institute for Feminist Theory and Research (www.iftr.org.uk) about organising a conference on third wave feminism we were not even sure what we meant by the term. What we did know was that our theory and praxis of feminism was not the feminism of the second wave, although it was inextricably informed and enabled by it.
We have seen that interrogating cultural and sexual behaviour has
not led to a thoroughgoing change in the balance of power. Feminism
has many, too many, critiques of dress and pornography, of poetry
and film-making, of language and physical behaviour. It has sought
to direct our personal lives ...