{"id":1350,"date":"2008-11-20T08:25:29","date_gmt":"2008-11-20T13:25:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/girlwpen.com\/?p=1350"},"modified":"2008-11-20T08:25:29","modified_gmt":"2008-11-20T13:25:29","slug":"feminism-40","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/2008\/11\/20\/feminism-40\/","title":{"rendered":"Feminism 4.0"},"content":{"rendered":"

Check out this GORGEOUS collage over at the new collaborate blog Fourth Wave Feminism<\/a>, which launched on the eve of the Democratic National Convention this year.\u00c2\u00a0 I just had to share:<\/p>\n

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While you’re at it, check out Fourth Wave’s mission statement, here.<\/a><\/p>\n

As a chronicler of feminism, of course I’m fascinated by the term. Here’s Fourth Wave’s post on the third<\/a> (wave, that is).\u00c2\u00a0 My basic position: I don’t care what we call it, let’s just keep on doing it.\u00c2\u00a0 Fourth, five, sixth, sixteenth….bring it on.<\/p>\n

To veterans, these divisions get tiresome, and I have seen how they can keep us from coming together.\u00c2\u00a0 But IMHO, the rolling of waves and the recognition of intergenerational difference in any social movement is natural, and essential to its growth.\u00c2\u00a0 I’m not seeing the same tensions between the “new” and the “old” with this fourth as there seemed to be when the term “third wave” first came about in the early 1990s.\u00c2\u00a0 (Unless I’m missing something here?)\u00c2\u00a0 At the same time, as the savvy ladies over at the UK feminist blog, The F-Word<\/a>, remind us, many of the aims of so-called second-wave feminism, both here and there<\/a>, still haven’t been achieved.\u00c2\u00a0 So boo to generational in-fighting.\u00c2\u00a0 We’ve got far too much at stake.\u00c2\u00a0 And hence, a caveat: fourth, fifth, sixth, bring it on, but let’s all keep our eyes on the larger prize.<\/p>\n

I write all about this waving of feminism (ah, the oceanography of it all…) in a book,<\/a> of course, with a hot pink cover.\u00c2\u00a0 And the WomenGirlsLadies<\/a> and I have been having a wonderful experience taking it all on the road.\u00c2\u00a0 Meanwhile, back in medialand, New York Magazine did a piece in April titled “The Feminist Reawakening: Hillary Clinton and the Fourth Wave<\/a>” and there was an article in Utne Reader back in 2001 called “Feminism’s Fourth Wave.”<\/a> Journalist Julie Leupold is doing a special project on “Fourth Wave Feminism”<\/a> over at Porfolio at NYU.\u00c2\u00a0 And so the public conversation and feminism and its waves continues.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Once again, I’m curious…what do others think of the term?\u00c2\u00a0 Interesting conversation going on in comments, across the pond<\/a>.<\/p>\n

PS. Feminism, in some corners, has been known to eat its young. So to the Fourth Wave blog– “exploring feminism in the 21st century and grappling with the continued gender inequity in America and the world”–a hearty welcome again to the blogosphere! And speaking of exploring, do check out the 68th Carnival of Feminists<\/a>, hosted at Fourth Wave.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Check out this GORGEOUS collage over at the new collaborate blog Fourth Wave Feminism, which launched on the eve of the Democratic National Convention this year.\u00c2\u00a0 I just had to share: While you’re at it, check out Fourth Wave’s mission statement, here. As a chronicler of feminism, of course I’m fascinated by the term. Here’s […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1902,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[245,21351,71,21804,3602],"class_list":["post-1350","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-feminism","tag-feminist-history","tag-intergenerational","tag-sisterhood-is","tag-third-wave"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1350","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1902"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1350"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1350\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1350"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1350"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1350"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}