Past Events
Young Women’s Engagement with Feminisms
- Venue: Newcastle City Library
- Start: Wed, 16 Apr 2014 17:15:00 BST
- End: Wed, 16 Apr 2014 18:00:00 BST
Evening Lecture Series: “Young Women’s Engagement with Feminisms”, Ruth Lewis (Northumbria University), Wednesday, 16th April, 5.30-6.30pm, City Library. At a time of a tremendous resurgence in feminist sentiment, this talk will draw on research with women students in the UK and US to explore young women’s feminisms (sometimes, problematically, referred to as ‘third wave feminism’). It will challenge the claim that young feminists espouse a politics of individualism, consumption, and sexual expression and display, in contrast to the feminism of the 1960s and 70s (so-call ‘second wave feminism’) that was rooted in a structural analysis of power, oppression and the path to liberation. It will argue that feminist history is more usefully considered as a ‘tapestry’ rather than a series of waves and that young feminists are diverse in their positions, identities and politics; their activities should be taken seriously as meaningful examples of contemporary feminist activism.