The waves of feminism, an irreconcilable periodization with History

Abstract

Most of the works published in recent decades on the history of women and feminism base their route on "the waves of feminism", a term born in 1968 when a renewed activism claimed rights and equality after years of withdrawal and expiration of the achieved so far. The new women of the 70s sought the heritage of the suffragettes, but staging a marked distance. The surge to describe the different processes of feminism in history has become so canonical that it is no longer recognized as an illustrative metaphor and does not fit in with the historiographical reality as the investigation deepens. This work lays the groundwork for a more coherent periodization of the contemporary history of women and feminist movements.