Women's Rights Movements: Third Wave

The new feminist icons must include women of all ages, socioeconomic backgrounds, races, religions, sexual orientations, and ethnicities.

Intersectionality – the theory of how different types of discrimination interact - has brought law professor Kimberlé Crenshaw global attention. Here, she talks to Bim Adewunmi about how both feminist and anti-racist campaigns have left “women of colour invisible in plain sight”.

One brisk morning in early 1993, Carol Moseley-Braun selected a favorite pantsuit from her closet and went off to her new job in Washington, D.C. Unbeknownst to her, women were forbidden from wearing pants on the Senate floor.

Discusses the difference in positions and wage earnings between men and women, common barriers that prevent women from advancing to executive positions and the nation's progression on the pay gap trend. Also discussed is the importance of public representation with regard to women in the workplace and diversifying leadership.

Two decades after its heyday, the Riot Grrrl Movement is beginning to formally take stock of itself.

The Riot Grrls was a feminist punk movement in the USA during the 1990s, promoting their own brand of "In Your Face Grrl Power" Feminism.

By now The Vagina Monologues is a worldwide phenomenon. Much more than a dramatic script, the play is a mass culture event, performed hundreds of times each year. It is also the motor behind V‐Day, an anti-violence organization with the declared mission of ending violence against women and girls, once and for all, everywhere.

Vice talks to writer and activist Eve Ensler about her iconic play's feminist legacy, twenty years on.

Explore how the mainstream media's often disparaging portrayals of women contribute to the under-representation of females in positions of leadership.

It’s come to be known as the Bechdel test, and it goes like so: For a given work of fiction to pass the test, the work must 1) have at least two women in it, who 2) talk to each other, about 3) something other than a man.

Thirty years after the feminist activists began, the Guerrilla Girls are still going. Their identities remain a secret but their fight for equality in the art world still attracts legions of fans.

A manifesto of sorts, Noami Wolf's 1991 book The Beauty Myth: How Images of Beauty Are Used Against Women is an indictment of the cosmetics, diet, pornography and plastic-surgery industries, and a call for a new wave of feminism to free women from enslavement to beauty’s dictates.

Founded in 1988, Sassy quickly became the cultural touchstone for teen girls who were slightly left of center.

Debbie Stoller and Marcelle Karp, 20-somethings who, in 1993, were having a hard enough time becoming women, let alone knowing what they wanted to be when they grew up, so they founded Bust, the now legendary zine that put a new spin on feminism--one that was sexy and fun.

Since the mid-1990's, Bust and several other independent magazines -- with titles like Bitch, Moxie , Bamboo Girl , Hip Mama, and Rockrgrl -- have sprung up around the country, struggling to define feminism for women in their twenties and early thirties, mostly in a backlash against the Cosmopolitans and Glamours of the world.

Sassy was the antithesis of the homecoming queen, please-your-boyfriend culture. It published articles about suicide and STDs while Seventeen was still teaching girls how to get a boy to notice you.

Punk and feminist icon Kathleen Hanna join W. Kamau Bell and Hari Kondabolu on Politically Re-Active to talk about her time in the riot grrrl band Bikini Kill and what it was like to be at the forefront of third wave feminism.

With the lifted chin and steely grace that characterized her televised testimony about Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, Prof. Anita F. Hill yesterday went before a spirited crowd of 2,100 cheering women in New York who seemed to hold her personally responsible for revitalizing feminism.

Bechdel self-syndicated Dykes to Watch Out For for twenty-five years, from 1983 to 2008. The award-winning generational chronicle has been called “one of the pre-eminent oeuvres in the comics genre, period.” (Ms. magazine)

bell hooks is an acclaimed intellectual, feminist theorist, cultural critic, artist, and writer. hooks has authored over three dozen books and has published works that span several genres, including cultural criticism, personal memoirs, poetry collections, and children's books.