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The first wave of feminism was a modern movement (1900s – 1920s) linked to the suffragettes, with the aim of giving women the right to vote and looking for legal enfranchisement.
The second wave of feminism was a movement driven by post-structural theory that looked to interrogate gender roles, marital responsibilities and the representation of women from a critical and intellectual perspective, in a renewed context of civil liberty. (1960s – 1980s)
Third wave feminism is a contemporary movement that generally seeks to broaden feminism to foreground additionally underprivileged women – women of colour, disabled women, queer and trans women. It’s also often linked to sex-positivity and can in some senses be defined as reactionary to the beliefs of particular second-wave feminists. (1990s – 2010s)
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