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Article Title: What was the Second Wave Feminist Movement
https://dailyhistory.org/What_was_the_Second_Wave_Feminist_Movement

Today, feminism is an ideology/theory that most people fail to understand fully. Feminism has been described as having three separate waves. The First Wave Feminist Movement started in the mid-19th Century and culminated with the women's suffrage movement. 2nd wave feminism started in the late 1950s moved into the 1980s. Finally, Third Wave feminism is bit more nebulous and less defined. It essentially started with the Anita Hill hearings before the Senate Judiciary Hearings for Supreme Court nominee Clarence Thomas and "the riot girl groups in the music scene of the early 1990s." Kimberley Crenshaw and Judith Butler were the intellectual theorists who helped ground the movement and incorporate intersectionality and embrace transgender rights.

Suggested Readings
1) Palmer, Colin. editor, Encyclopedia of African-American Culture and History. 2nd ed. Vol. 5. Detroit: Macmillan Reference USA, 2006
2) Ruíz, Vicki. Cannery Women, Cannery Lives: Mexican Women, Unionization, and the California Food Processing Industry, 1930-1950. (Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1987)
3) Gilmore, Stephanie, ed., Feminist Coalitions: Historical Perspectives on Second-Wave Feminism in the United States, Women in American History. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2008
4) Feminist Nationalism (New York: Routledge, 1997)
5) LeGates, Marlene. In Their Time: A History of Feminism in Western Society,. New York: Routledge, 2001
6) Herman, Alexis M, Equal Pay: A 35-Year Perspective. (Place of publication not identified: Diane Pub Co, 1998
7) Milkman, Ruth, On Gender, Labor, and Inequality, Working Class in American History. Urbana, Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 2016
8) Laughlin, Kathleen A., and Jacqueline L. Castledine. Breaking the Wave: Women, Their Organizations, and Feminism, 1945-1985. New York: Routledge, 2011

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