Coleman’s “An Introduction to feminisms in a postfeminist age” talks about the different “waves” of feminism and the differences that they have. We are supposedly experiencing “third wave feminism” in our society today, which is basically feminism that includes all kinds of sexualities, races, and socioeconomic classes. Second wave feminism was centered more on white women, and didn’t really include transgenders, bi-sexuals, or lesbians. Third wave feminism encompasses all these types of “women,” therefore broadening the scope of material. Postfeminism on the other hand is the belief that society today has grown past “feminism” due to the rise of equality between genders. I’m not too sure if I agree with that, but I guess I have to read up more on these articles to figure out the logic behind all these. Again, this scholarly article was hard to understand because of the flowery language that was used, so most of what I got from it were the definitions. It was really interesting reading up on the origins of feminism and how it came about, but it definitely wasn’t pleasure reading. It was really hard material to absorb, to say the least. I’m not too sure if I want to stick with Academic Search Complete to find all my data for research, because I feel like there are many other reliable articles that I can find online that are much easier to understand. Right now though, I suppose the only references I have are the ones from that search engine, which is fine.
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