03 12 PCC Comparison of Waves of Feminism

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1848-1920 1963-1980 1991-?

now
Goals, political Against sexism and against workplace
agenda equality for the idea that sexual harassment
women; women are happy
at home as to increase the
the right to housewives number of women
vote; in positions of
sex, and power
abolitionist relationships, and
movement; access to abortions, Second-wavers
and domestic labor; fought to be
equal called women rathe
opportuniti the right to hold r than girls, But
es for credit cards under third-wavers liked
education, their own names and being girls
employmen to apply for
t, to own mortgages;
property;
to outlaw marital
reproductiv rape, to raise
e rights awareness about
domestic violence
and build shelters for
women fleeing rape
and domestic
violence

to name and legislate


against sexual
harassment in the
workplace;

racism;

black women also


wanted to stop the
forced sterilization
of people of color
and people with
disabilities (women
of colour created
the term womanism)
Tools, march, 1963 - Betty the Anita Hill case Online
methods lecture, Friedan’s The Femin in 1991
protest ine Mystique, queer, sex-
the riot groups in positive, trans-
the music scene of inclusive, body-
the early 1990s positive, and
digitally driven
makeup and high
heels and high-
femme girliness
girliness, third-
wavers argued,
was not inherently
less valuable than
masculinity or
androgyny

a growing belief
that effective
feminism had to
recognize both the
dangers and the
pleasures of the
patriarchal
structures that
create the beauty
standard and that it
was pointless to
punish and censure
individual women
for doing things
that brought them
pleasure.

Achievemen 1920 - the The Equal Pay Act 1992, would be #YesAllWomen
ts 19th of 1963 theoretically dubbed “the Year
Amendment outlawed the gender of the Woman”
- the right to pay gap; after 24 women #StandWithWen
vote won seats in the dy 
the right to use birth House of
control; Representatives #MeToo
and three more
Title IX - the right to won seats in the
educational equality; Senate

1973, Roe v.
Wade guaranteed
women reproductive
freedom
Public People are scared; Controversies
reaction about #MeToo
Feminists are viewed
as humorless, hairy-
legged shrews who
cared only about
petty bullshit like
bras instead
of real problems,
probably to distract
themselves from the
loneliness of their
lives, since no man
would ever want a
(shudder) feminist

The unhappy women


are all feminists

That image of
feminists as angry
and man-hating and
lonely

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