The purpose is to determine and clarify if today's society (2009 to 2019) in Sweden is currently undergoing the fourth wave of feminism by studying the three historical waves of feminism with the main question, ‘Is the society in the fourth wave of feminism?’ The theoretical review is based on several theories about the definition of waves of feminism and social movements. The concepts and theories are operationalized into the factors: actors, results, focus areas and political participation. The selected method consists of a study with descriptive case with a qualitative character based on a literature study. The analysis of the similarities of the historical waves of feminism applied to todays feminism movement prove similarities about the results, but in a smaller scale today. The focus areas have strong similarities to the historical waves and the political participation have strong similarities too, apart from the role of social media today. About the actors, the similarity is strong but todays feminism consists of a large role of individual actors on social media. The conclusion it that the society today is perceived to have clear similarities to the historical waves and can because of that represent the fourth wave of feminism.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:UPSALLA1/oai:DiVA.org:lnu-95617 |
| Date | January 2020 |
| Creators | Karlén, Johanna |
| Publisher | Linnéuniversitetet, Institutionen för statsvetenskap (ST) |
| Source Sets | DiVA Archive at Upsalla University |
| Language | Swedish |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Student thesis, info:eu-repo/semantics/bachelorThesis, text |
| Format | application/pdf |
| Rights | info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess |
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