TUF: The feminist waves and why sex‑based feminism still matters

In this episode, Martine and Liv step back to map the bigger picture — tracing the feminist "waves" from Mary Wollstonecraft's demand for women's rational equality in 1792, through the suffrage campaigns, into the women's liberation movement of the 1960s and 1970s, and on to the third, fourth and liberal feminist strands that followed. The episode is particularly interested in the continuous thread that runs underneath all of it: the insistence, found first in early writers like Wollstonecraft and Astell, that women's subordination is a political arrangement, not a natural one. For listeners coming to feminist theory for the first time, or trying to locate where second-wave, materialist feminism sits in the wider story, this is the grounding episode.This podcast provides general information and opinion only and does not constitute legal advice. Listeners should seek independent, professional legal advice before acting on any matters discussed. The hosts and AAWAA accept no liability for decisions made based on this content.