victim feminism

is an indictment of feminism where women are supposedly encouraged to see themselves rendered passive by oppression within a second wave formulation.

Naomi Wolf, however, gets a more mixed reception, but her Fire with Fire (1993) in many ways fits the third wave mould, particularly in her dismissal of what she calls 'victim feminism' where women are supposedly encouraged to see themselves rendered passive by oppression within a second wave formulation. Wolf articulates her perspective as part of a generational shift in common with practically all third wave feminism whose genesis is based on a resistance to the 'old guard'or framed in terms of the need for the 'daughter' to break away from her feminist 'mother' in order to define her own agenda.' (50 key concepts: 170)

victim feminism, n.Definitions

victim feminism