The four waves of feminism

Feminist history is generally packaged as a story of “waves”, the first lasting from the mid-19th century to 1920. The second wave spanned the 1960s to the early 1980s. The third wave began in the mid-1990s and lasted until the 2010s and some say we are experiencing a fourth wave in the online age of today.

The Female Eunuch at 50

Germaine Greer’s The Female Eunuch changed lives. Published 50 years ago in October 1970, it exists in the popular imagination as a kind of shorthand for that world-historic moment when women said they’d had enough.

What came before #MeToo? The ‘himpathy’ that shaped misogyny

Unless #MeToo successfully expands beyond professional women by reaching out to empower pink- and blue-collar women who suffer in silence under male supervisors, it will leave its mark but will not have done its most significant work.