TUF. The feminist waves and why sex‑based feminism still matters

The AAWAA Women’s Advocate · Jun 4, 2026 · 14m

In this episode, Martine and Liv step back to map the bigger picture — tracing the feminist "waves" from Mary Wollstonecraft's demand for women's rational equality in 1792, through the suffrage campaigns, into the women's liberation movement of the 1960s and 1970s, and on to the third, fourth and liberal feminist strands that followed. The episode is particularly interested in the continuous thread that runs underneath all of it: the insistence, found first in early writers like Wollstonecraft and Astell, that women's subordination is a political arrangement, not a natural one. For…