1101GIR Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Second-Wave Feminism, Third-Wave Feminism, Postfeminism
L10. Feminism
First Wave Feminism
• Focused on gaining equal rights for women, initially the vote
• 'The Suffragettes': https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qTPquhaRxUw
Second Wave Feminism
• Patriarchy (rule of the fathers) is now seen as deeper and more enduring than the first wave's
emphasis on formal equality being recognised
o Led to calls for greater militancy
• 'Andrea Dworkin's Testimony to the Attorney General on Pornography':
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QmEsu1TTJ-Y
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