Second Wave Feminism and its Systemic Racism: What the Educational System Does Not Explain

Abstract

The modern secondary school curriculum teaching 20th century women’s history, the first and second feminist waves, has been designed circularly hegemonic, and for decades following the advancement of academic fields such as radcial feminism, gender studies, and intersectionality, this current cirrculam has neglected the work of multi-racial feminist groups as well as the dangers of the race-sex analogy. This paper focuses on drawing awareness to the systemic exclusion women faced, the contributions of non-white feminist groups, and how such divisions limited all woman from achieving their goals of equality, recognition, and justice as well as possible conclusions to why the educational field has narrowed perspectuves for secondary school teaching. by using a comparative apprach to his essay, the paper was conducted from researching the corrospondence, legal documents, and recordings of these respective non-white organizations housed in the Schlesinger Library archive at the Radcliff Institude for Advanced Study.