Published in 2005
992 pages
Leslie Heywood is the author of four books of poetry and the acclaimed sports memoir Pretty Good for a Girl. She Professor of English and Creative Writing at Binghamton University in upstate New York, where her academic research focuses on the neurobiology of emotion and its impact on sport and creativity. She has an M.F.A. in poetry from the University of Arizona, and a Ph.D. in Critical Theory from the University of California, Irvine. Her academic books include Dedication to Hunger: The Anorexic Aesthetic in Modern Culture and Built to Win: The Female Athlete as Cultural Icon. She is an avid practitioner of Bikram and Ashtanga Yoga, holds multiple certifications in CrossFit. She does private coaching in CrossFit and yoga and has a special interest in working with Parkinson’s patients to gain and retain their mobility and mental focus. A life-long athlete, she held the Arizona high school state record for the mile for 22 years, was ranked 11th in the country in the bench press in the early 2000’s, and most recently finished 5th in the country in Master Women’s division of the USA Yoga National Championships in 2016.
What is this book about?
The second wave of feminism of Gloria Steinem and Betty Friedan has given way to the dynamic next generation, the third wave, now 15 years old.
The Women’s Movement Today: An Encyclopedia of Third Wave Feminism introduces the third wave’s key issues, members, visions, writings, and more–with essay entries on abortion to zines, with the Riotgrrrl group Bikini Kill, cyberspace, National Girls and Women in Sports Day, queer theory, and activist/writer Rebecca Walker in between. The scope of the more than 200 encyclopedia entries is multidisciplinary and multicultural, inclusive of diverse gender orientations and sexualities, with a focus primarily on the movement in the United States.
The Primary Documents volume showcases a wide variety of writings from some of the leading third wavers. This is meant to be the essential reference work on the current movement, as it charts, describes, and clarifies what has been a much debated and misunderstood phenomenon.
