Why Might a Third-Wave Feminist Be Annoyed with Members of the Second

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Multiple Choice

Why might a third-wave feminist be annoyed with members of the second wave for talking about how women needed access to jobs and careers, like those available to men, that would give their lives meaning?

• A) Second-wave feminists already had pretty good jobs, so they shouldn't have complained.
• B) Second-wave feminists hid the differences between women, so the concerns of women of color, lesbians, and lower-class women tended to be marginalized.
• C) Third-wave feminists would argue that being a wife and a mother, as long as it's freely chosen, is just as fulfilling as any career.
• D) Third-wave feminists think that higher education and capitalist jobs are part of the problem and need to be torn down.
• E) Second-wave feminists never managed to achieve real success in gaining access to higher education.

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