In 1981 the noted British sociologist Olive Banks published a work called Faces of Feminism: A Study of Feminism as a Social Movement which provided an overview of feminism from the 1840s up to theContinue reading
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Is it possible to listen across difference in feminist digital spaces?
By Caitlin McGrane, Akane Kanai and Julia Coffey Despite what we might think, feminists use social media to try to understand different points of view and bring about social change, even when conflict can makeContinue reading
Media Representations
Global Reality TV formats like Wife Swap, international best-sellers like Men are from Mars, Women are from Venus and Hollywood blockbusters like Avatar do not just reflect our understandings of gender and sexuality. They alsoContinue reading
Feminism
The period of activism in the early 20th century around securing the vote for women has been called the first wave of the feminist movement. The second wave refers to the activism beginning in the 1960s. TheContinue reading
