Second-wave feminism
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Second-wave feminism was a period of feminist activity that began in the early 1960s and lasted roughly two decades, ending with the feminist sex wars in the early 1980s and being replaced by third-wa
Eleanor Roosevelt and John F. Kennedy NARA cropped
American Association of University Women members with President John F. Kennedy as he signs the Equal Pay Act into law in 1963
Betty Friedan published The Feminine Mystique in 1963
Third-wave feminism
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Third-wave feminism is a feminist movement that began in the early 1990s; it was prominent in the decades prior to the fourth wave. Grounded in the civil-rights advances of the second wave, Gen X thir
Second-wave feminism
…activity that began in the early 1960s and lasted roughly two decades, ending with the feminist sex wars in the early 1980s and being replaced by third-wave feminism in the early 1990s. It occurred throughout the Western world and aimed to increase women's equality by building on the feminist gains of the late 19th…
Rebecca Walker in 2003. The term third wave is credited to Walker's 1992 article "Becoming the Third Wave".
Anita Hill, 2014
Kathleen Hanna, lead singer of Bikini Kill, 1991
Jennifer Baumgardner, co-author of Manifesta (2000), in 2008