The Women's Movement Today: An Encyclopedia of Third‐Wave Feminism

The “Third‐Wave” is the most recent development in feminist thinking, one that combines the notion of equal rights for women with popular culture and an interest in equality as a general, rather than a gender, concept. This encyclopaedia is intended as “the essential reference work on the current movement as it charts, describes, and clarifies what has been a much‐debated and misunderstood phenomenon” (p. xi). It comes in two volumes, the first dedicated to the encyclopaedia itself, which includes entries on key issues and figures in the Third‐Wave movement. The second volume contains primary documents: a cross‐section of writing from...