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Article: Isn't it ironic? The intersection of third-wave feminism and Generation X.
- Article from:
- Women's Studies in Communication
- Article date:
- September 22, 2001
- Author:
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In this essay, I analyze how gender is constructed and communicated by women popularly associated with and thus representative of Generation X in order to assess the nature of the relationship between Generation X and third-wave feminism and to chart the presence of feminism in contemporary popular culture. Ultimately, I argue that the overlap between "third wavers" and Generation X is great and that third-wave feminism is more appropriately understood as a "Gen X" subculture than as an evolutionary phase of feminism.
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