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Article: The Women's Movement Today: An Encyclopedia of Third Wave Feminism.(Book review)
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- Feminist Collections: A Quarterly of Women's Studies Resources
- Article date:
- September 22, 2005
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Leslie L. Heywood, ed., THE WOMEN'S MOVEMENT TODAY: AN ENCYCLOPEDIA OF THIRD WAVE FEMINISM. Westport, CT: Greenwood, 2006. 838p. 2v. illus. index. $199.95, ISBN 0-313-33134-0.
"An encyclopedia about Third Wave feminism already? Didn't that wave just start? Isn't it a bit premature to give it the imprimatur of encyclopedia status? How could there possibly enough to say about it to warrant two volumes (838 pages)?"
If that's what you're thinking, hold the harumphing. The concept of Third Wave feminism has been around for fifteen years; put another way, today's freshmen were toddlers when the term was coined by Naomi Wolf in The Beauty Myth and expanded by ...