Negotiating Spaces For/Through Third-Wave Feminism

Vampires, Vixens, and Feminists: An Analysis of Twilight

“…Some popular culture texts deliberately examine the issue of feminism to only illustrate how it is no longer a useful concept and that, instead, women have moved beyond a feminist critique of woman as object to celebrate the notion of choice or of woman as subject (McRobbie 2004). Kinser (2004) claims that a postfeminist discourse is seductive to young women because they can simultaneously acknowledge feminism while Downloaded by [University of Nebraska, Lincoln] at 07:29 27 August 2015 expressing relief that the feminist movement is no longer necessary. We must be cognizant of the ways that postfeminism "co-opts the motivating discourse of feminism but accepts a sense of empowerment as a substitute for the work toward and evidence of authentic empowerment" (Kinser 2004, 134).…”

Everyday Activism as a Dialogic Practice: Narratives of Feminist Daughters

“…These daughters came to a feminist consciousness from the everyday socialization of their mothers and grew up to embrace feminist beliefs in their everyday lives, highlighting activism as an interpersonal, invitational, and dialogic process. Kinser (2004) asserts that one of the most important contributions of third-wave feminism is its focus on narrative for ''exploring how it feels to live a feminist life, how feminism informs and complicates one's sense of identity, and how one stabilizes that identity while being knocked about by post-feminist and backlash forces'' (p. 137). As storytelling is a primary avenue for constructing ourselves and communicating our values to others (McAdams, 1997), in the present study I ask about the stories of daughters raised by feminist activist mothers.…”

“…While feminism is often categorized into three ''waves'' (Olson et al, 2008), these waves have less to do with clear-cut generational divides than with cultural context and political climate. Kinser (2004) suggests that for third-wavers, constructing a sense of themselves as feminist is always intertwined and infused by a postfeminist ideology reinforcing feminism's image as unneeded and unattractive. Kinser writes ''the only thing postfeminism has to do with authentic feminism is to contradict it at every turn while disguising this agenda, to perpetuate the falsehood that the need for feminist change is outdated' ' (p. 124).…”

“…Baumgardner and Richards (2000) write that ''the Third Wave was born into the diversity realized by the latter part of the Second Wave'' (p. 77), and diversity and change are typical characterizations for third-wavers. While third-wave feminists have brought diverse experiences of women, particularly women of color, to the feminist agenda, Kinser (2004) points out women of color still must fight to have race-related concerns emerge as central within feminist space. With this in mind, I seek to position the present study in relation to the aim of challenging Whiteness in feminist social activism, bringing standpoint theory into play to highlight the intersection of culture, class, and feminist positioning in the voices of the daughters who shared their stories with me.…”

Negotiating Feminist Politics in the Third Wave: Labor Struggle and Solidarity inLive Nude Girls Unite!

“…In response to these critiques, Amber E. Kinser (2004) recommended ways that third-wave feminism can ''position feminists in rhetorically and politically advantageous space''-namely, by being able to ''confront the relationships between feminism, struggle, and social change, and . .…”