Young feminists have grown up with a plethora of cultural choices
and images -- in the distance from Gloria Steinem to Courtney Love,
a chasm has been traversed and an entire history made. In Third
Wave Agenda, feminists born between the years 1964 and 1973 discuss
the things that matter now, both in looking back at the
accomplishments and failures of the past and in planning for the
challenges of the future.
The women and men writing here are activists, teachers, cultural
critics, artists, and journalists. They distinguish themselves from
a group of young, conservative feminists, including Naomi Wolf and
Katie Roiphe, who criticize second wave feminists and are regularly
called on to speak for the "next generation" of feminism. In
contrast, Third Wave Agenda seeks to complicate our understanding
of feminism by not only embracing the second wave critique of
beauty culture, sexual abuse, and power structures, but also
emphasizing ways that desires and pleasures such as beauty and
power can be used to enliven activist work, even while recognizing
the importance of maintaining a critique of them.
Combining research, theory, and social practice with an
autobiographical style, these writers are hard at work creating a
new feminism that draws on the submerged histories of other
feminisms -- black feminism, "womanism", and working-class
feminism, among others. Some topics explored in Third Wave Agenda
include feminism in popular music, interracial coalitions, and
tensions between individual ambitions and collective action.
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