How Second-Wave Feminism Forgot the Single Woman

Second-wave feminism and the attitude of Islam to it

Nowadays, we are witnessing various crises and challenges in different areas. The women's crisis is one of the most significant of these crises, and feminism is a solution for solving this crisis, according to the Westerns.The researchers have emphasized the sexual equality perspective(gender equality) to define feminism. The main purpose of the feministsforeliminating all gender differences be...

A Dynamic Womanhood: How Henrik Ibsen’s A Doll House Depicts Feminism through Changing Characterization Second-wave feminism, which began in the early 1960s, was a widespread social movement that ultimately heralded the birth of the modern woman—strong, independent, and possessing aspirations

The Fourth Wave of Feminism and the Lack of Social Realism in Cyberspace

Recent years have witnessed a surge in research on the impact of the cyberspace on social movements. The feminist movement has built a vocal platform online which attempts to underscore sexual violence against women. Scholars have begun to suspect that the internet has ushered in a new wave, the fourth wave of feminism. The fourth wave’s main feature is its reliance on social media. The accessi...

Anti-Essentialism, Sexual Agency and Third-Wave Feminism: Approaches to Contemporary Legal Theory

A group of established feminist legal scholars are translating third-wave ideas and methodologies into a vibrant legal theory. These scholars do not acknowledge explicitly the influence of third-wave feminism, but they embrace its theoretical commitments as they attempt to redefine the relationship between feminism and the law. This paper explores three works in particular: Janet Halley’s book,...

Repunctuated Feminism: Marketing Menstrual Suppression Through the Rhetoric of Choice

This essay examines the rhetoric of choice as it is used by direct-to-consumer campaigns to persuade women to limit menstruation through the consumption of oral contraceptives. Using the tools of feminist rhetorical criticism, I trace how choice is rhetorically constructed to suggest that menstrual suppression is a path to individual empowerment while co-opting second and postsecond-wave rhetor...