Waves of Feminism by JUBILEE ANNE DEL ROSARIO

Waves of Feminism by JUBILEE ANNE DEL ROSARIO https://padlet.com/djc1436/3iln1zk7di8bpgqd Tracing the roots of the issues, problems, controversies, and debates in the field of gender en-us 2021-10-29 14:20:39 UTC 2024-10-05 12:16:58 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet.net/icons/png/1f5e3.png THE FIRST WAVE: 1848-1920 djc1436 https://padlet.com/djc1436/3iln1zk7di8bpgqd/wish/1854080242 Main Issues, Problems, and Controversies for Wave 1:

(Right to Vote)
The first wave basically begins with the Seneca Falls convention of 1848. There, almost 200 women met in a church in upstate New York to discuss “the social, civil, and religious condition and rights of women.” Attendees discussed their grievances and passed a list of 12 resolutions calling for specific equal rights — including, after much debate, the right to vote.

Understanding:
The problem here is that during this period black man was able to vote and the white women was wanting to vote also. and the question was will they get or will it be granted for women to also vote or they will stay like the status of black man before.

(Suffrage and Slavery of Women)
At the time, the nascent women’s movement was firmly integrated with the abolitionist movement: The leaders were all abolitionists, and Frederick Douglass spoke at the Seneca Falls Convention, arguing for women’s suffrage. Women of color like Sojourner Truth, Maria Stewart, and Frances E.W. Harper were major forces in the movement, working not just for women’s suffrage but for universal suffrage.

Group Understanding:
As we read this timeline, two brave women fought for their rights to live and favor in abolishing the slavery of women wherein they don't treat or see them as human beings. Many of the leaders also agrees with abolishing the slavery because their votes are important too. Women are totally abused during this time because they are being easily rejected in the society wherein they are not treated as human beings.

Overall, this first wave is indeed significant, because it stands for abolishing discrimination and slavery of women, in the first wave women started to seek for their rights to vote through organized manner which is basic human rights in this time.]]> 2021-10-29 14:29:22 UTC https://padlet.com/djc1436/3iln1zk7di8bpgqd/wish/1854080242 THE SECOND WAVE: 1963-1980 djc1436 https://padlet.com/djc1436/3iln1zk7di8bpgqd/wish/1854087567 The Feminine Mystique rails against “the problem that has no name”: the systemic sexism that taught women that their place was in the home and that if they were unhappy as housewives, it was only because they were broken and perverse. “I thought there was something wrong with me because I didn’t have an orgasm waxing the kitchen floor,” Friedan later quipped.

But, she argued, the fault didn’t truly lie with women, but rather with the world that refused to allow them to exercise their creative and intellectual faculties. Women were right to be unhappy; they were being ripped off.

Group Understanding:
The second wave worked on getting women the right to hold credit cards under their own names and to apply for mortgages. It worked to outlaw marital rape, to raise awareness about domestic violence and build shelters for women fleeing rape and domestic violence. It worked to name and legislate against sexual harassment in the workplace.

But perhaps just as central was the second wave’s focus on changing the way society thought about women. The second wave cared deeply about the casual, systemic sexism ingrained into society — the belief that women’s highest purposes were domestic and decorative, and the social standards that reinforced that belief — and in naming that sexism and ripping it apart.

The second wave cared about racism too, but it could be clumsy in working with people of color. As the women’s movement developed, it was rooted in the anti-capitalist and anti-racist civil rights movements, but black women increasingly found themselves alienated from the central platforms of the mainstream women’s movement.

Second-wave feminism also drew attention to the issues of domestic violence and marital rape, created rape-crisis centers and women's shelters, and brought about changes in custody laws and divorce law.]]> 2021-10-29 14:32:26 UTC https://padlet.com/djc1436/3iln1zk7di8bpgqd/wish/1854087567 THE THIRD WAVE: 1991 - (?) djc1436 https://padlet.com/djc1436/3iln1zk7di8bpgqd/wish/1854091636 In 1991, Anita Hill testified before the Senate Judiciary Committee that Supreme Court nominee Clarence Thomas had sexually harassed her at work. Thomas made his way to the Supreme Court anyway, but Hill’s testimony sparked an avalanche of sexual harassment complaints, in much the same way that last fall’s Harvey Weinstein accusations were followed by a litany of sexual misconduct accusations against other powerful men.

And Congress’s decision to send Thomas to the Supreme Court despite Hill’s testimony led to a national conversation about the overrepresentation of men in national leadership roles. The following year, 1992, would be dubbed “the Year of the Woman” after 24 women won seats in the House of Representatives and three more won seats in the Senate.

And for the young women watching the Anita Hill case in real time, it would become an awakening. “I am not a post-feminism feminist,” declared Rebecca Walker (Alice Walker’s daughter) for Ms. after watching Thomas get sworn into the Supreme Court. “I am the Third Wave.”

Early third-wave activism tended to involve fighting against workplace sexual harassment and working to increase the number of women in positions of power. Intellectually, it was rooted in the work of theorists of the ’80s: Kimberlé Crenshaw, a scholar of gender and critical race theory who coined the term intersectionality to describe the ways in which different forms of oppression intersect; and Judith Butler, who argued that gender and sex are separate and that gender is performative. Crenshaw and Butler’s combined influence would become foundational to the third wave’s embrace of the fight for trans rights as a fundamental part of intersectional feminism.

Group Understanding:
The third wave was a diffuse movement without a central goal, and as such, there’s no single piece of legislation or major social change that belongs to the third wave the way the 19th Amendment belongs to the first wave or Roe v. Wade belongs to the second.

Depending on how you count the waves, that might be changing now, as the #MeToo moment develops with no signs of stopping — or we might be kicking off an entirely new wave.

Influenced by the postmodernist movement in the academy, third-wave feminists sought to question, reclaim, and redefine the ideas, words, and media that have transmitted ideas about womanhood, gender, beauty, sexuality, femininity, and masculinity, among other things. The problem here became broader since in the third wave women tends to fight for equality and equity in general.]]> 2021-10-29 14:34:04 UTC https://padlet.com/djc1436/3iln1zk7di8bpgqd/wish/1854091636 THE FOURTH DAY: THE PRESENT djc1436 https://padlet.com/djc1436/3iln1zk7di8bpgqd/wish/1854093660 The fourth wave’s beginnings are often loosely pegged to around 2008, when Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube were firmly entrenched in the cultural fabric and feminist blogs like Jezebel and Feministing were spreading across the web. By 2013, the idea that we had entered a fourth wave was widespread enough that it was getting written up in the Guardian. “What’s happening now feels like something new again,” wrote Kira Cochrane.

Currently, the fourth-wavers are driving the movement behind #MeToo and Time’s Up, but in previous years they were responsible for the cultural impact of projects like Emma Sulkowicz’s Mattress Performance (Carry That Weight), in which a rape victim at Columbia University committed to carrying their mattress around campus until the university expelled their rapist.

Like all of feminism, the fourth wave is not a monolith. It means different things to different people. But these tentpole positions that Bustle identified as belonging to fourth-wave feminism in 2015 do tend to hold true for a lot of fourth-wavers; namely, that fourth-wave feminism is queer, sex-positive, trans-inclusive, body-positive, and digitally driven. (Bustle also claims that fourth-wave feminism is anti-misandry, but given the glee with which fourth-wavers across the internet riff on ironic misandry, that may be more prescriptivist than descriptivist on their part.)

And now the fourth wave has begun to hold our culture’s most powerful men accountable for their behavior. It has begun a radical critique of the systems of power that allow predators to target women with impunity.

Although debated by some, many claim that a fourth wave of feminism began about 2012, with a focus on sexual harassment, body shaming, and rape culture, among other issues. A key component was the use of social media to highlight and address these concerns. The new wave arose amid a number of high-profile incidents.

Group Understanding:
The fourth wave focuses and emphasize the sexual harassment that women are experiencing, body shaming is also big factor in discrimination, women with excess fat and body hair and unsymmetrical face are being verbally abuse. What is good in their advocacy is that they use social media or internet as their flat form to fight for the rights of women and to end all abuse and discrimination.

]]> 2021-10-29 14:34:51 UTC https://padlet.com/djc1436/3iln1zk7di8bpgqd/wish/1854093660 Source: djc1436 https://padlet.com/djc1436/3iln1zk7di8bpgqd/wish/1854115052 2021-10-29 14:43:15 UTC https://padlet.com/djc1436/3iln1zk7di8bpgqd/wish/1854115052