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This paper covers questions on topics such as third-wave feminism, the shaping of gender roles through participation in patriarchal families, the feminist issue of aging and the beauty myth, the social construction of gender through language, and the social construction of gender through education.

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"The term "third wave feminism" refers to the feminists in the here and now. The third wave is current feminist practice, which builds and expands upon the "second wave mantra" that states "the personal is political" (Mitchell & Karaian, 2005, p. 59). According to Mitchell and Karaian (2005) third wave feminists are characterised by their tendency to "defy labels, embrace contradictions, and call for complexity, [appearing] eclectic, fragmented, and even trite" (p. 59). Third wave feminists distance themselves from earlier feminist waves, while acknowledging the changes that those previous activists had made (Mitchell & Karaian, 2005)..."

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