Most conservative women, if asked about the first wave of feminism, would voice general approval. It is seen as a rather pure approach to women’s issues, focused on protecting women and advancing ...

Feminism is a powerful movement that has been around for centuries, and it continues to shape our society today. But what exactly is feminism? In its most basic form, feminism is the belief that women ...

Feminism is a broad church and the online discourse around it is so frequently dominated by conflict between different schools of feminism that it can be difficult to pinpoint what it’s all about. In ...

I am often asked by young women if we should take back the term “feminism.” It still carries the cachet of caring about women, and most of us are quite happy with the achievements of first-wave ...

Over the past 100 years, feminism has worn many faces. We have experienced three waves of feminism, each extremely different than the wave that came before it. The first wave’s main goal was trying to ...

Even before it published its first issue in 1971, Ms., the feminist magazine co-founded by Gloria Steinem, had vocal critics. Journalist Harry Reasoner declared on ABC News that the publication would ...

From Seneca Falls to suffrage? Reimagining a "master" narrative in U.S. women's history / Nancy A. Hewitt -- Multiracial feminism: recasting the chronology of second wave feminism / Becky Thompson -- ...