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Llewellyn, Dawn
Reading, Feminism, and SpiritualityBook Chapter
The third wave’s encouragement of individual feminist meanings and practices has been interpreted as signaling the “death” of feminism as a social, political, and women-centered movement. Its insistence on intersectionality, gendered differences, and the “multiplicity of every person’s possible identifications” (Kristeva, 1986b 1979, p. 210) has advanced the pursuit of local feminisms (Zack, 2005, p. 3), but the emphasis on fragmented subjectivities, and the relative definitions of feminism makes it difficult for woman/women to be the basis for commonality, which threatens the cohesion of a unified feminist community.
