Modern, postmodern, and postcolonial feminisms are terms that are used to describe different forms of feminist theory that emerged, 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. Over the past sixty-plus years, those feminisms, informed by modern, postmodern, and postcolonial thinking, have become ways in which women who suffer from different forms of oppression can come together under a common feminist banner.