Feminism Cook Book

Logan Beilke- Skoug

Homan
4,4 English
03 March, 2017

American First Wave Feminism

1830s-1920s
Serves: Activists and Abolitionists

History:
In the 1830s, women started discussing their freedoms like voting, political placement,
control over their bodies, being able to have ownership of land, the right to obtain a job and
work outside of the house, and general equality to men. Many victories were served as groups
were founded and started going after their local state government. Women and African
Amerians did this to be able to push the issues to the federal government by making them
aware of the problems and the rights they wished to have.

Instructions to follow:
Start by heating a flame of resistance and oppresion to a simmering heat.
Add a liberal mix of people:
Add about 500,000 open minded females.
Sprinkle 20,000 men looking for change and equality for their
partner or friend.
Add a generous amount of well-known activists:
Elizabeth Cady
Stanton
Lucretia Mott
Lucy stone
Susan B. Anthony
Carrie Chapman Catt
Sojourner Truth
Fredrick Douglas
Stir well until NAWSA group forms (National American Woman Suffrage
Association).
Sautee your strikes until change happens.
Dice and add the new revised 15th ammendment, as well as the 19th
ammendment.
Warnings:
Many may disapprove of what you're fighting for. Keep aware for police looking to lock
you up, or for the roarin 20s Activism crash.
The American Library, American women https://memory.loc.gov/ammem/awhhtml/awmss5/suffrage.html

American Second Wave Feminism

1960s-1980s
Serves: Activists and Liberationists

History:
Although many other events happened from the roaring 20s activism crash to the coming of
second age feminism, were focusing on legislative battles and events that brought attention to people's
eyes once again. Although towards the 1980s due to consumerism, the dream of feminism died out again
for many due to belief of equality at the time.

Instructions to follow:
Begin with a base layer of Oral Contraceptives, and remarks made about women and
their choices, by other women.
Add a mixture of fully passed bills:
JFKs Commission on
the status of Women
Equal Pay Act
Civil Rights Act of 1964
Equal Employment
Opportunity commission, Griswold v. Connecticut
Roe v. Wade
Equal Credit
Opportunity Act
Taylor V. Louisiana
Pregnancy
Discrimination Act 1978
Stir in NOW (National Organization for Women).
Fry NARAL (National Abortion Action League).
Add strikes with 50,000 people plus.
Create Ms.Magazine using one Gloria Steinem.
Fold in National Womens Political Caucus.
Empty contents of battered Womens Shelters.
Optional: Add ashes of burnt bras.
FeministActivist, Day 7- waves of the feminism movement in the U.S, FeministActivist, https://feministactivism.com/tag/second-
wave-feminism/ March 7, 2011

American Third Wave Feminism

1990s-2015
Serves: Feminists and Social Justice warriors

History:
 This wave is set out to call forth all different colors, genders, and sexualities. It is no
longer a soul purpose of equal rights. But more so equal rights for all of those around us in daily
life. This group of Feminists attend many different protests, and marches in the name of their
equality.
Instructions To follow:
Turn heat up on social justice, and human rights.
Add several different raced females.
Sprinkle in your choice of unjust issues: racism, social class, transgender rights,
abortion rights, and sexual liberation.
Start preparing your slut walks to grab the attention of the people.
Optional: reclaim derogatory terms like bitch, slut, or cunt.
Blend your Contraception and abortion rights.
Add V-day organization.
Mix Vagina Monologues gallery into the whole dish.
NOTE* These two are added for the prevention of your dish starting any gender
violence.
Add harsher prison sentences and punishments for rapists, pedophiles, and
those who sexually harass.
Warning:
This recipe is often manipulated, and often taken in radical cases now. Many females,
and men are abandoning this new group because it is no longer the recipe they had hopped for.

Laura Brunell, Elinor Burkett, Feminism, Encyclopedia Britannica, https://www.britannica.com/topic/feminism#toc216004 14 July,

2016