FEMINIST

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 Feminist theory
A major branch within
sociology that shifts its
assumptions, analytic lens,
and topical focus away from
the male viewpoint and
experience and toward that of
women.
 In doing so, feminist
theory shines a light on
social problems, trends,
and issues that are
otherwise overlooked or
misidentified by the
historically dominant male
perspective within social
theory.
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 According to Maggie Humm and Rebecca Walker, the history of

feminism can be divided into three waves. The first feminist
wave was in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, the
second was in the 1960s and 1970s, and the third extends from
the 1990s to the present.
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 Maggie Humm  Rebecca Walker

Is a professor of cultural Is an American writer,
studies and the author and feminist, and activist.
editor of several books Walker has been regarded
focusing on women, as one of the prominent
feminism, and noted voices of Third Wave
author Virginia Woolf, often Feminism since she
in relation to Woolf's published an article on
interest in photography feminism in 1992 in Ms.
and film.... The reviewer magazine in which she
also called Feminism and proclaimed: "I am the Third
Film "important to film Wave."
scholars”.
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Feminist theory emerged from these feminist
movements. It is manifest in a variety of
disciplines such as feminist geography, feminist
history and feminist literary criticism.