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  • Yet what's commonly referred to as second-wave feminism the 1960s and '70s version is not, in fact, the entirety of a movement that is still going on, albeit in different ways, and it's now commonly understood that there are "feminisms" -- strands of feminism -- rather than one monolithic version.

    The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com Rachel Kramer Bussel 2011

  • Along with those of other so-called second-wave directors in Hong Kong, Law’s films are moody and strive to communicate the postmodern disconnect of the time.

    Crazy Like Us Ethan Watters 2010

  • So how religious currents interacted with second-wave feminism in the last half of the twentieth century is an intriguing puzzle.

    American Grace Robert D. Putnam 2010

  • I would, in the spirit of a gleeful, parodic, kidding-on-the-square reply to Gloria Steinem, like to offer my own list of 15 ways the media would be different if it were 97-percent run by second-wave cis feminists (rather than those feminists with a more inclusive view) instead of being 97-percent run by (presumably cis) men:

    Valerie Keefe: Degender Her, Erase Her, Deny Her, Quip She's an 'It' Valerie Keefe 2011

  • I would, in the spirit of a gleeful, parodic, kidding-on-the-square reply to Gloria Steinem, like to offer my own list of 15 ways the media would be different if it were 97-percent run by second-wave cis feminists (rather than those feminists with a more inclusive view) instead of being 97-percent run by (presumably cis) men:

    Valerie Keefe: Degender Her, Erase Her, Deny Her, Quip She's an 'It' Valerie Keefe 2011

  • "The main advantage of kicking the can is safeguarding particularly Portugal and Ireland, but also the second-wave of countries, Spain and Italy," says Marco Annunziata, chief economist at General Electric Co.

    Move Buys Time for Greece, But Growing Debt Looms Stephen Fidler 2011

  • Just one hard-edged painting from 1969 represents Reed's work in the Corcoran's "Washington Color and Light" retrospective, which features all six Washington Color School painters alongside Sam Gilliam, Anne Truitt and a few other second-wave artists connected with the Color School.

    Paul Reed, the last of the Washington Color School, is still painting 2011

  • I would, in the spirit of a gleeful, parodic, kidding-on-the-square reply to Gloria Steinem, like to offer my own list of 15 ways the media would be different if it were 97-percent run by second-wave cis feminists (rather than those feminists with a more inclusive view) instead of being 97-percent run by (presumably cis) men:

    Valerie Keefe: Degender Her, Erase Her, Deny Her, Quip She's an 'It' Valerie Keefe 2011

  • But hey, go on believing your second-wave feminist nonsense.

    Matthew Yglesias » Stark Contrast 2009

  • I would, in the spirit of a gleeful, parodic, kidding-on-the-square reply to Gloria Steinem, like to offer my own list of 15 ways the media would be different if it were 97-percent run by second-wave cis feminists (rather than those feminists with a more inclusive view) instead of being 97-percent run by (presumably cis) men:

    Valerie Keefe: Degender Her, Erase Her, Deny Her, Quip She's an 'It' Valerie Keefe 2011

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