The Feminist Fourth Wave

This book examines the fourth wave of feminism within the United Kingdom. Focusing on examples of contemporary activism it considers the importance of understanding affect and temporality in relation to surges of feminist activity. Examining the wave’s historical use in the feminist movement, the book redefines the symbol in an attempt to overcome difficulties of generations, identities and divisions. The author contends that feminism must develop its own methods for time keeping, in which past activism and future aspirations touch on the present moment. Through this unique temporality, she continues, feminism can make space for affective ties to create intense moments of activism, in which surges of feeling catalyse and sustain mass action. This thought-provoking book, with its exploration of the relationship between feeling, the personal and political, will appeal to students and academics working in the fields of gender studies, feminism and affect studies.

 Fourth wave feminism has entered the national conversation and established a highly visible presence in popular media, especially in cutting-edge science fiction and fantasy films and television series. Wonder Woman, the Wasp, and Captain Marvel headline superhero films while Black Panther celebrates nonwestern power. Disney princesses value sisterhood over conventional marriage. This first of two companion volumes addresses cinema, exploring how, since 2012, such films as the Hunger Games trilogy, Mad Max: Fury Road, and recent Star Wars installments have showcased women of action. The true innovation is a product of the Internet age. Though the web has accelerated fan engagement to the point that progressivism and backlash happen simultaneously, new films increasingly emphasize diversity over toxic masculinity. They defy net trolls to provide stunning role models for viewers across the spectrum of age, gender, and nationality.

This book addresses the current resurgence of interest in feminism–notably within popular culture and media–that has led some to announce the arrival of the fourth wave. Research explores where fourth-wave feminism sits in relation to those that preceded it, and in particular, how fourth-wave feminism intersects with differing understandings of postfeminism(s). Through accessible and highly topical examples such as; the controversial actions of activist group, Femen; the rising phenomenon of ‘celebrity feminism;’ or the assumed outdated views of feminists’ associated with previous waves, the relationship between differing concepts of postfeminism(s) is illustrated. By pressing the need for an intergenerational approach to fourth-wave feminism, this book encourages engaging past debates and theorists allowing readers with an interest in the relationship between feminism and popular culture a fuller understanding of feminist theory and providing the opportunity to take stock before diving headfirst into another wave.

Feminisms in Leisure Studies acknowledges and advances the contribution of feminist theories to leisure knowledge and research. Building upon the strong history of feminist leisure scholarship, the book reviews key feminist theories and offers an overview of a fourth wave of feminism and its relevance to leisure. Written by a team of leading international feminist scholars, each chapter addresses a particular theoretical perspective, using examples from each author’s research to unpack methodological and substantive issues essential to leisure studies. Critically, this book moves beyond women, the emphasis of much gender scholarship to date, to focus on issues of feminism as connected to leisure scholarship more broadly. This book is an important and engaging read for students and scholars of diversity, women’s studies, multiculturalism, social justice, gender studies, leisure studies, LGBTQQ studies, and feminist research.

Powerful and confronting, it stirs so much emotion within anyone who reads it. Male, female, gay, straight, young or old - it's loved by some and detested by others. Irrespective of the adoration or abhorrence experienced, it makes people feel something so deep and intense they can't stop reading until the end. This book will lead you the reader to either a profound discovery of inconvenient and uncomfortable truths, or overwhelming and liberating senses of clarity.The two-volume book explores historic, social, cultural, political and statistical realities of Western societies globally. It synchronously moves through the journey of the silenced straight-white-Western man and woman living in the world today by investigating the attack on everything that is healthy, beautiful, traditional, all-encompassing, tolerant or decent, as well as everything that is race, gender, religion, family-focussed and Western. The text within presents disturbing realities that are difficult for many to confront. Equally, it explores how the new wave of feminism seeks to take choices and freedoms away from women and men by obliterating all that was so brilliantly achieved by the original and unadulterated suffragettes. While the author explores the fundamental principles of the first three waves of feminism in historical, social, objective, subjective and academic contexts, this book is not meant to be about gender. Rather, it makes the distinction about each wave of a Western social movement to demonstrate what can eventuate through the hijacking of democracy and the words used within it. Surviving Fourth Wave Feminism - The War on the West is not about men or women, it's about the ideological subversion of Western minds by foreign interests cloaked under the untouchable word called feminism. It's about the destabilisation of Western nations in preparation for an inevitable war on the West that is already being fought and won by foreign adversaries. As we tear ourselves apart to fight for titles, quotas, false realities and subjective virtue signals we grow weaker while our enemies grow stronger. By reading this book, you will learn the inconvenient truths of the world in which you live. Do you have the courage to see what can never be unseen?

On a bright day at the Epsom Derby, 4 June 1913, Emily Wilding Davison was hit by the king’s horse in one of the defining moments of the fight for women’s suffrage – what became known as feminism’s first wave. The second wave arose in the late-1960s, activists campaigning tirelessly for women’s liberation, organising around a wildly ambitious slate of issues – a struggle their daughters continued in the third wave that blossomed in the early-1990s. Now, a hundred years on from the campaign for the vote, fifty years since the very first murmurs of the second wave movement, a new tide of feminist voices is rising. Scattered across the world, campaigning online as well as marching in the streets, women are making themselves heard in irresistible fashion. They’re demonstrating against media sexism, domestic violence and sexual assault, fighting for equal pay, affordable childcare and abortion rights. Thousands are sharing their experiences through the Everyday Sexism project, marching in Slutwalk protests, joining demonstrations in the wake of the Delhi gang rape, challenging misogynist behaviour and language, online crusaders and ordinary people organising for the freedom of women everywhere. Kira Cochrane’s All the Rebel Women is an irrepressible exploration of today’s feminist landscape, asking how far we have come over the past century – and how far there still is to go. Whether engaging with leading feminists, describing the fight against rape culture or bringing immediate, powerful life to vital theories such as intersectionality, All the Rebel Women binds everything together into one unstoppable idea. This is modern feminism. This is the fourth wave.

Fourth-wave-feminism has crept up on us and seems intent on destroying the Western world as we know it. That's the premise of this volume and Dr B Real explains what's happening, the reasons for this fourth wave of feminism, its proponents and the danger they are to the free world.This is the second volume of Surviving Fourth Wave Feminism: The War on the West and it digs down into detail with excruciating examples of how so-called feminists (both men and women) are aiming to drag Western society down to a lower level. The author explains why positive discrimination can't work and how it can be positively dangerous with examples from the armed services and even closer to home, police action or inaction in situations of extreme peril that require the very best of the police and which suffer from a lack of leadership or the proper training for such circumstances.Dr B gives the example of a fourth-wave-feminist in action in sports, where a champion is defeated but tries to deflect her public loss by claiming that she is a mother and she will not stand for what was (supposedly) done to her in the public arena. The winner is side-lined as the "champion" rants and raves and pouts. And yet, if you watch the match between the two players you can see that the champion just lost because her game wasn't good enough that day.What about women who are more interested in men for what they can do for them? The book describes the sort of women who would rather laze the day away without doing any work and expect men to pick up the slack to provide for them. Dr B identifies them as gold diggers and gives an awful example of a video showing a couple who have been together for five years breaking up because the girl would rather go with someone who is very obviously richer than her partner. And apparently, there are a large number of these videos on the Internet, which is saddening.Coming back to home turf, Australia, Dr B gives examples of a female media celebrity who is asked to participate in high-level meetings where they have no background and have no training for. And yet what they say is held with the highest regard. They also desecrate the memory of veterans when posting inappropriate messages on ANZAC day without thought as to how it might affect those who are remembering wounded or dead comrades or relatives.There are other equally repellent examples that demonstrate how women have been subverted from looking for equality of opportunity with men to wanting to get the same as men but by doing less and taking more. Worse is that younger girls are being indoctrinated into the same awful belief that men, particularly white men are the lowest of the low.Early on in the book Dr B introduces the concept of MGTOW, which is all about enlightened men deciding to go do their own thing rather than get involved with the possibility of being marginalise now or in the future by a woman who is hiding or yet to adopt her fourth-wave-feminism so that she can entrap him.It's clear that fourth-wave-feminism just cannot be ignored. Fortunately, Dr B has ideas for reducing or eliminating the impact of fourth-wave-feminism and devotes several pages to tips that will reduce its impact. Ultimately, if you're a man you're unlikely to be smiling by the time you've finished reading this but you'll be fully aware of the arguments and evidence that Dr B lays out for you. If you're a woman who's a little uncomfortable with the direction feminism seems to have taken this will be a chilling read.

Feminist Theory and Pop Culture synthesizes feminist theory with modern portrayals of gender in media culture. This comprehensive and interdisciplinary text includes an introductory chapter written by the editor as well as nine contributor chapters of original content. Included in the text: • Historical illustration of feminist theory • Application of feminist research methods for the study of gender • Feminist theoretical perspectives such as the male gaze, feminist standpoint theory, Black feminist thought, queer theory, masculinity theory, theories of feminist activism and postfeminism • Contributor chapters cover a range of topics from Western perspectives on Belly Dance classes to television shows such as GIRLS, Scandal and Orange is the New Black, as well as chapters which discuss gendered media forms like “chick lit”, comic books and Western perspectives of non-Western culture in film • Feminist theory as represented in the different waves of feminism, including a discussion of a fourth wave • Pedagogical features • Suggestions for further reading on topics covered • Discussion questions for classroom use Feminist Theory and Pop Culture was designed for classroom use and has been written with an eye toward engaging students in discussion. The book’s polished perspective on feminist theory juxtaposes popular culture with theoretical perspectives which have served as a foundation for the study of gender. This interdisciplinary text can serve as a primary or supplemental reading in undergraduate or graduate courses which focus on gender, pop culture, feminist theory or media studies. “This excellent anthology grounds feminism as articulated through four waves and features feminists responding to pop culture, while recognizing that popular culture has responded in complicated ways to feminisms. Contributors proffer lucid and engaging critiques of topics ranging from belly dancing through Fifty Shades of Grey, Scandal and Orange is the New Black. This book is a good read as well as an excellent text to enliven and inform in the classroom.” Dr. Jane Caputi Professor of Women, Gender and Sexuality Studies and Communication & Multimedia at Florida Atlantic University “Feminist Theory and Pop Culture is destined to be as popular as the culture it critiques. The text plays up the paradoxes of contemporary feminism and requires its readers to ask difficult questions about how and why the popular bring us pleasure. It is a contemporary collection that captures this moment in feminist time with diverse analyses of women’s representations across an impressive swath of popular culture. Feminist Theory and Pop Culture is the kind of text that makes me want to redesign my pop culture course. Again.” Dr. Ebony A. Utley, Assistant Professor of Communication at California State University-Long Beach, author of Rap and Religion Adrienne Trier-Bieniek, Ph.D. is a professor of sociology at Valencia College in Orlando, Florida. She is the author of Sing Us a Song, Piano Woman: Female Fans and the Music of Tori Amos (Scarecrow 2013) and the co-editor of Gender & Pop Culture: A Text-Reader (Sense 2014). www.adriennetrier-bieniek.com