Third Wave Agenda

by Heywood, Leslie

• ISBN13: 9780816630059
• ISBN10: 0816630054
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1997-10-01
• Publisher: Univ of Minnesota Pr

Summary

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 how desires and pleasures such as beauty and power can be used to enliven activist work, even while maintaining a critique of them.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments
Introduction	p. 1
Living in McJobdom: Third Wave Feminism and Class Inequity	p. 25
We Learn America like a Script: Activism in the Third Wave; or, Enough Phantoms of Nothing	p. 40
Reading between the Waves: Feminist Historiography in a "Postfeminist" Moment	p. 55
HUES Magazine: The Making of a Movement	p. 83
Part Animal, Part Machine: Self-Definition, Rollins Style	p. 103
Roseanne: A "Killer Bitch" for Generation X	p. 122
A Tale of Two Feminisms: Power and Victimization in Contemporary Feminist Debate	p. 134
Deconstructing Me: On Being (Out) in the Academy	p. 155
Feminism and a Discontent	p. 168
Masculinity without Men: Women Reconciling Feminism and Male-Identification	p. 178
Duality and Redefinition: Young Feminism and the Alternative Music Community	p. 207
Doin' It for the Ladies - Youth Feminism: Cultural Productions/Cultural Activism	p. 226
Hip-Hop Matters: Rewriting the Sexual Politics of Rap Music	p. 239
Contributors	p. 255
Index	p. 261
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