If You Must Think Of Feminism In The Wave Narrative, Here Are The Most Important Moments In The Waves
The wave narrative might not be the most accurate model, but it allows us to visualize how the women’s movement has changed over time
Though it doesn’t create the most representative picture of what can broadly be described as the women’s movement, it can be helpful to visualize the vast, complicated birth and evolution of feminism in terms of the “wave narrative.” The wave narrative — as its name implies — charts the surges, emergences, and resurgences of women and allies galvanizing around a particular set of issues related to equality, gender, and sexuality. The first way to think about the waves is in terms of historical period — in other words, putting rough date ranges on the moments in time when self-identified feminists (though the nomenclature varies) began organizing, either in general or in a notably new way with a new set of goals. Of course, that doesn’t mean that feminism went away between the waves; rather, in the off seasons, ideas and practices were changing and adapting to need the needs of their particular moment.
Another way to think about the waves of feminism is to combine historical time period…
