Women's Studies in Credo: Third Wave

From The International Encyclopedia of Human Sexuality
The saying that “beauty is only skin deep” suggests that there is a certain triviality to physical attractiveness, and that appearance alone should not impact the way others view or treat people.

From From Suffrage to the Senate: America's Political Women
In 1985, Andrea Dworkin and Catharine MacKinnon proposed an ordinance that defined pornography as sex discrimination and an infringement on women's civil rights.

From From Suffrage to Senate: America's Political Women
Reproductive rights are based upon the premise that human dignity and equality grant each person the right and the responsibility to make reproductive decisions for herself or himself. Information about human sexuality and reproduction is fundamental to making those decisions, as is access to the services necessary to act upon the decisions.

From Encyclopedia of American Studies
Rather than assuming that all women were similarly oppressed, women of color took issue with unitary theories of gender and addressed the differences among women's experiences.

From Gender and Education: An Encyclopedia
Another factor operative in the shaping of the emergence of Black women's studies is the development of creative tension between Black womanists and feminists and White feminists and between Black studies and women's studies. Black studies had always understood the discipline as composed of studies of Black men and women, male and female, family and community.

From Contemporary Youth Culture
The culture forces girls to choose between one of two very different identities—good girl or bad girl. In recent years, two factors have helped make a third identity possible, one less tied to moral conformity and more to empowering young women: jammer girl. The rise of jammer girl is linked to and springs from the Internet and third wave feminism.

From The Women's Movement Today
Judith Butler’s (1956–) significant contributions to feminist theory are her engagement with the Foucauldian account of the body as the inscribed surface of regulatory discourses, an elaboration of gender as the performative stabilization of sexual difference, and considerations of the exclusion inevitable to any identity category.

From Encyclopedia of African-American Writing
After a brief attempt at novel writing, Walker realized that writing nonfiction was her calling. In 2001, she wrote her best-selling memoir Black, White, and Jewish (2001).

From Culture Wars in America: An Encyclopedia of Issues, Viewpoints, and Voices
Feminist author Naomi Wolf is known for her best-selling first book, The Beauty Myth: How Images of Beauty Are Used Against Women (1991), regarded as one of the central texts of third-wave feminism.