What are the four waves of feminism? And what comes next?

  • Written by: Sharon Crozier-De Rosa, Professor, University of Wollongong

In Western countries, feminist history is generally packaged as a story of “waves”. The so-called first wave lasted 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. Finally, some say we are experiencing a fourth wave, which began...

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