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__NOTOC__[[File:1993Summer pfister1Large_breaking_wave.jpg|thumbthumbnail|left|"New young feminists pride themselves on being young and trendy, beautiful and radical, smart and very, very media-savvy." [https://www.ontheissuesmagazine.com/1993summer/Summer1993_Pfister.php250px|From: One Issue MagazineThird Wave Feminism] ]]__NOTOC__
Previous DailyHistory articles have discussed the [[What was the First Wave Feminist Movement?|First]] and [[What was the Second Wave Feminist Movement?|Second]] Wave Feminist Movements. Like Second Wave feminism, Third Wave feminism emerged from some of the failures and conversations left behind from the wave before.
==== Background ====
[[File:1993Summer pfister1.jpg|thumb|left|"New young feminists pride themselves on being young and trendy, beautiful and radical, smart and very, very media-savvy." [https://www.ontheissuesmagazine.com/1993summer/Summer1993_Pfister.php|From: One Issue Magazine] ]]
As is common with any large coalition, group goals need to be broad enough to encompass the desires of the majority of those involved. White, educated women with clout during the First Wave often advanced the need for white women's rights by suggesting they were better educated and equipped to exercise those rights than non-white men and women.