No Permanent Waves

Braids and bridges: A critical collaborative autoethnography of racially minoritized women teaching intergroup dialogue.

“…There is a rich and long history of WOC coming together to address the collective oppression they experience. WOC, rooted in different movements (i.e., 2nd wave feminism), organizations (i.e., Third World Alliance, formerly known as the Black Women’s Alliance), and issues (i.e., reproductive justice) have historically come together to address the intersections of racism, sexism, colonialism, and/or capitalism (Hewitt, 2010; Romney, 2021). They engaged in “maneuvers, mobilizations, movements, tactics, and strategies” to “actively negotiate and resist the ongoing legacies of power and domination, in their myriad manifestations, across time and space” (Fujiwara & Roshanravan, 2018, p. 6).…”

Mad Men y la realidad de las mujeres: un análisis histórico

“…El término "olas" busca, a través de la metáfora, enunciar que las diversas etapas que se desarrollaron en el movimiento feminista no corresponden a procesos cerrados con una fecha de inicio y una de finalización, sino que se trata de momentos con una mayor cantidad de debates, acciones políticas y producciones teóricas y otros donde esto sucede en menor cantidad pero siempre en constante movimiento y construcción (Hewitt, 2010: 1-2 y Laughlin, 2010. En ese sentido, decimos que la Primera Ola del feminismo se desarrolló a fines del siglo XIX y principios del XX en Europa y Estados Unidos, en el marco del proceso de industrialización y liberalismo económico y político que atravesaban ambas regiones.…”

Historicising the Women's Liberation Movement

“…6 The idea of 'waves' in feminist history has itself been challenged by Nancy Hewitt which has led to a more nuanced, less white dominated and less suffrage based history of the 'first wave' from the 1840s to the 1920s. 7 Beyond the first wave there was a continuing stream of feminist thought and activism. There is no denying, however, that there was a great burst of feminist energy-mass activism, theoretical texts and literature-between the 1960s and 1980s which distinguishes it from the periods both before and after.…”