I'd like to apologize from the outset about the shortness of the forthcoming blog. I am getting over a cold from break and my brain isn't up to writing a ton. Sorry.
In Helmbrecht and Love's "Third-Wave Zines," Dr. Monroe challenged us to see if we could discover the difference between post-feminism and third-wave feminisim. In the middle of the article, Love and Helmbrecht addressed the "Ethos of One." In this segment they quote the observations of Catherine Orr when they say "postfeminism (a term often used erroneously alongside third wave) 'assumes that the [second wave] women's movement too care of oppressive institutions...'" (157).
Unless I missed another instance (which is entirely possible in my current state of mind), this is the only time in the article they mention the conflation of the two terms directly. Post-feminism simply states that women are people too and supports unity versus separation between men and women.
This is in seeming opposition to third-wave which embraces contradiction and clash. Third-wave accomodates diversity and change. To state it simply, they believe there is no one feminist idea.
Women are of many colors, creeds, ethnicities, religions, nationalities, and cultural backgrounds, and it seems that third wave feminisim and these zines are attempting to change cultural perspectives of "feminists."
I'm sorry for the surface glance at these articles. Hope everyone had a good break.
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