Chapter 12: Modern, Postmodern, and Postcolonial Feminisms

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Chapter 12 Modern, Postmodern, and PostcolonialFeminisms
Simone de Beauvoir and the SecondSex
Intersectionality and “Othering”
Audre Lorde and Gloria E. Anzaldúa
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Abstract

Modern, postmodern, and postcolonial feminisms are terms that are used to describe different forms of feminist theory thatemerged, mostly in the post-World War II era, that were influenced by second-wave feminism. These were forms of thinking that tried to reclaim universal female rights from worldwide male oppression. Because of the diversity of forms that oppression took, different flavors of feminism emerged.

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