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Feminist Waves

Ahmad, A. (2015). Feminism beyond the waves: do we need a different metaphor than three big waves to appreciate feminism today? Briarpatch. 44(4), 12–.
The article focuses on the power of metaphors to appreciate feminism in the modern times. It cites the three struggles of feminism which include civil and political rights, legal personhood and the rights to inherit and hold property. It notes that feminism is also defined as a transformative politics, revolutionary politics, and a mass politics. According to feminist theorist Victoria Bromley, the wave metaphor gives a sense of feminist continuity.
Pollitt, K. (2017). A feminism of everything. The Nation. 304(12), 6–.
The article discusses the topic of feminism, human rights and women's equality, offering information on the women power in comparison to the men. It talks on the issues elated to the women and asks for such movements helpful in raising the feminist standard. The feminist movement against issues including equal pay, affordable child care, and rape culture demands equal opportunity and rights to led a peaceful feminist life.
** Tunstall, L., & Eaton, S. E. (2019). Women’s Rights: An Overview. Canadian Points of View: Women’s Rights, 1.
Women in Canada have not always had the same basic rights as men. Since the early twentieth century, Canadian women have fought for property rights, the right to vote, the right to be elected to the House of Commons or appointed to the Senate, the right for access to education, for labour rights, and for reproductive rights. Not all Canadian women obtained these rights at the same time.
Jane, E. (2016). Online misogyny and feminist digilantism. Continuum (Mount Lawley, W.A.), 30(3), 284–297.
This article examines contemporary feminist 'digilante' responses to the increasing problem of misogyny online. In particular, it focuses on female gamers and a recent incident in which the Australian gamer Alanah Pearce responded to threats of sexual violence from young male Internet users by alerting their mothers. Pearce's move was celebrated in international media commentary as the 'perfect' solution to the problem of online rape threats.

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MacDonnell, J. (2014). Enhancing our Understanding of Emancipatory Nursing: A Reflection on the Use of Critical Feminist Methodologies. Advances in Nursing Science, 37(3), 271–280.
The aim of this analysis is to contribute to an understanding of emancipatory nursing in the context of higher education. Engagement with formative studies that used critical feminist methodologies led to my research focus on lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) health in my academic research program. ...
Reverby, S. (2014). Transnational feminist practices and the history of nursing. Nursing History Review, 22, 163-165. https://doi.org/10.1891/1062-8061.22.163
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We should all be feminists | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

We teach girls that they can have ambition, but not too much ... to be successful, but not too successful, or they'll threaten men, says author Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie. In this classic talk that started a worldwide conversation about feminism, Adichie asks that we begin to dream about and plan for a different, fairer world -- of happier men and women who are truer to themselves.

We Should All Be Feminists by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Publication Date: 2015
The highly acclaimed, provocative New York Times bestseller from the award-winning, bestselling author of Americanah In this personal, eloquently-argued essay--adapted from the much-admired TEDx talk of the same name--Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie offers readers a unique definition of feminism for the twenty-first century, one rooted in inclusion and awareness...

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He's a Stud, She's a Slut, and 49 Other Double Standards Every Woman Should Know by Jessica Valenti
Publication Date: 2008
Double standards are nothing new. Women deal with them every day. Take the common truism that women who sleep around are sluts while men are studs. Why is it that men grow distinguished and sexily gray as they age while women just get saggy and haggard? Have you ever wondered how a young woman is supposed to both virginal and provocatively enticing at the same time? ...

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Making Space for Indigenous Feminism by edited by Joyce Green
Location: E 98 .W8 .M355 2017 (located at NDC)
This second edition builds on the success of its predecessor, but is not merely a reiteration of it. Some chapters from the first edition are largely revised. A majority of the chapters are new, written by important new scholars and activists. The second edition is more confident and less diffident about making the case for Indigenous feminism and in deploying a feminist analysis. The chapters cover issues that are relevant to some of the most important issues facing Indigenous people--violence against women, recovery of Indigenous self-determination, racism, misogyny, and decolonisation. Specifically, new chapters deal with Indigenous resurgence, feminism amongst the Sami and in Aboriginal Australia, neoliberal restructuring in Oaxaca, Canada's settler racism and sexism, and missing and murdered Indigenous women in Canada.