6/28/2023 0 Comments Girls to the Front by Sara Marcus![]() ![]() Explorations of femininity and gender were just as wide‐ranging in the 1990s, with the advent of fields like motherhood studies spearheaded by scholar Andrea O’Reilly who created Demeter Press, the first feminist press focused exclusively on motherhood. For this strain of feminism, “intersectionality” (coined by legal scholar Kimberlé Crenshaw in the late 1980s) becomes an important term for thinking through how different social categories-gender, race, class, sexuality (dis)ability, and so on-come together to create a system of privilege or disadvantage for any individual. ![]() With the advent of sex‐positive third‐wave feminism in the 1990s, notions of femininity and feminism shift, in reaction to the growth of fields like masculinities and transgender studies, but also in response to the activism of women in the previous decade to broaden the inclusivity of feminism. ![]()
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