3rd wave feminism

Naomi Wolf intersectionality– feminism isn’t just one group of people there are different groups of feminists eg. black or gay feminists

 third-wave sees women’s lives as intersectional, demonstrating a pluralism towards race, ethnicity, class, religion, gender and nationality when discussing feminism.

Barker and Jane (2016),

  • an emphasis on the differences among women due to race, ethnicity, class, nationality, religion
  • individual and do-it-yourself (DIY) tactics
  • fluid and multiple subject positions and identities
  • cyberactivism
  • the reappropriation of derogatory terms such as ‘slut’ and ‘bitch’ for liberatory purposes
  • sex positivity

Ariel Levy ranch culture theory is the idea of liberation involves new freedoms for sexual exhibition, experimentation and presentation

is the sexualised performance of women in the media that can play into male stereotypes of women as highly sexually available, where its performers believe they are powerful owners of their own sexuality’

Bell Hook- advocates media literacy, the need to engage with popular culture to understand class struggle, domination, renegotiation and revolution. Put another, encouraging us all to ‘think critically’ to ‘change our lives’.ethnicity and race, (intersectionality)

‘in a postcolonial context, women carry the double burden of being colonized by imperial powers and subordinated by colonial and native men

Queer Theory

Judith Butler- we perform an identity and suggests that gender is fluid, changeable, plural a set of categories to be played out and performed by individual subjects in individual moments in time and space.

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