Abstract
A critical response to the New Wave Feminism, or the Third Generation Feminism that erupted during the 1990s. The article lists movements, exhibitions, television series, webcomics, and e-magazines to demonstrate examples of New Wave Feminism. The author uses Riot Grrrl, a punk feminist movement that started in the early 1990s, as an example. Riot Grrl combines feminism, punk music, and politics. The article lists a few examples of Riot Grrrl culture, such as artworks, music magazines, e-magazines, and websites. The author draws a comparison between the Spice Girls, whom the author describes as possessing “a doll-like grown-up sex appeal, physical energy, confidence, independence, and lots of image propagation” and groups like Bikini Kill, who founded the Riot Grrrl movement with their combination of feminism and hardcore/punk lyrics. Further examples are mentioned in the visual arts with VNS Matrix, which was a digital collective art project that explored cyberfeminism.
Preservation Process
Archived from http://switch.sjsu.edu/archive/nextswitch/switch_engine/front/front.php%3Fartc=220.html. Documentation of the preservation processes used for this collection is available at https://github.com/NickSzydlowski/switch. Metadata for this item was created and augmented by Santino Santos, Spring 2022, ART 104.
Recommended Citation
Laffer, Christine
(1998)
"Charred Edges,"
SWITCH: Vol. 9:
No.
1, Article 2.
Available at:
https://scholarworks.sjsu.edu/switch/vol9/iss1/2