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Jennifer Baumgardner. Jennifer Baumgardner (born 1970) is a writer, activist, filmmaker, and lecturer whose work explores abortion, sex, bisexuality, rape, single parenthood, and women's power. From 2013 to 2017, she served as the Executive Director/Publisher at The Feminist Press at the City University of New York (CUNY), a feminist ...
Rebecca Walker (born Rebecca Leventhal; November 17, 1969) is an American writer, feminist, and activist.Walker has been regarded as one of the prominent voices of Third Wave Feminism, and the coiner of the term "third wave", since publishing a 1992 article on feminism in Ms. magazine called "Becoming the Third Wave", in which she proclaimed: "I am the Third Wave."
By 1913, Feminism (originally capitalized) was a household term in the United States. [125] Major issues in the 1910s and 1920s included suffrage, women's partisan activism, economics and employment, sexualities and families, war and peace, and a Constitutional amendment for equality.
The term third wave is credited to Walker's 1992 article, "Becoming the Third Wave." [ 1 ] Third-wave feminism is a feminist movement that began in the early 1990s, [ 2 ] prominent in the decades prior to the fourth wave. [ 3 ][ 4 ] Grounded in the civil-rights advances of the second wave, Gen X third-wave feminists born in the 1960s and 1970s ...
Third Girl is a work of detective fiction by Agatha Christie and first published in the UK by the Collins Crime Club in November 1966 [1] and in the US by Dodd, Mead and Company the following year. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] The UK edition retailed at eighteen shillings (18/-) [ 1 ] and the US edition at $4.50.
The World Conference on Women, 1985 or the Third World Conference on Women took place between 15 and 26 July 1985 in Nairobi, Kenya, as the end-of-decade assessment of progress and failure in implementing the goals established by the World Plan of Action from the 1975 inaugural conference on women as modified by the World Programme of Action of the second conference.
t. e. The Communist International (Comintern), also known as the Third International, was an international organization founded in 1919 that advocated world communism, and which was led and controlled by the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. [3][4][5] The Comintern resolved at its Second Congress in 1920 to "struggle by all available means ...
She found courtship in America to be "organized in a fairly formal fashion" with men approaching women and asking point blank for a date; she found this to be "awkward". [109] She described the socially constructed “third date rule" which was that women were not supposed to have sex until the third date even if they desired it, although men ...