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Postcolonial feminism
Postcolonial feminism is a form of feminism that was created focusing on the experiences of women in Western cultures and past colonies. The movement of the modern feminism movement has been divided in three waves. The first-wave of feminism originated in the late nineteenth century with middle-class white women who had access to resources and education being the demographic. The problems that were brought up was from well-off women. The second wave of feminism began in the early 1960s touched on the sexist power struggles and addressed issues within the workplace, family, issues with sexuality, and reproductive rights. The outcome of this wave was Equal Pay and the removal of gender based discriminatory practices. But what the first and second wave failed to do was to include the problems of women of color and the difference between classes. The third wave changed things up a bit in the 1980s, unlike the past waves, it embraced diversity and individualism in women.

Post colonial feminism began solely to analyze Western feminism and postcolonial theory but later on it took on the role of addressing the key issues in both fields.