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Steven Soderburgin
Well, recently, I'd probably change the ending of Knowing, which I found disgustingly lurid, nearly pornographic.
First wave is pretty basic, but very important. It started in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries and was mostly focuses on property rights, suffrage, that sort of thing. Think Susan B. Anthony.
Second wave began in the sixties and coincided with the sexual revolution for the most part. It was mostly concerned with ending discrimination. Some really great, essential feminist texts were written during this time, such as The Feminine Mystique by Betty Friedan. This is when Women's Liberation first became a thing, so to speak. This is the "bra-burning" era, but there's a lot of debate over whether much bra-burning was actually done. This is also when organizations such as the Women's Liberation Front and NOW got started.
Third Wave feminism gets a little more difficult to define. It started in the 1990's and was basically a response to the failures of second wave feminism at getting things like equal pay, better protections for reproductive rights, and so on. When people say Third Wave feminism, they're referring to the more modern movements. It's harder to define, though, because the modern movement doesn't have any, or even a few, single unifying idea or goal. It's very fractious.
Deliberately ignoring Grueman's question because it's stupid jokey.
