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Rebecca Walker
American feminist
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third wave of feminism
- In feminism: Foundations
…were founded by (among others) Rebecca Walker, the daughter of the novelist and second-waver Alice Walker. Jennifer Baumgardner and Amy Richards, authors of Manifesta: Young Women, Feminism, and the Future (2000), were both born in 1970 and raised by second wavers who had belonged to organized feminist groups, questioned the…
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In 1992 Rebecca Walker, the daughter of the novelist and second-waver Alice Walker, published an article in Ms. magazine that examined the impact of the confirmation of Clarence Thomas to the U.S. Supreme Court in 1991. Thomas was narrowly confirmed even after testimony to the Senate Judiciary…
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