Tri vala feminizma: pobijanje patrijarhalnog ustrojstva društva i djelovanje na stav društva o “rodu” i “queer-u”

Feminism is defined as a social, political, and economic movement that primarily enabled women worldwide to gain equality between men and women. This movement can be separated into three waves: the first wave in which women advocated for their voting rights; the second wave in which women sought political independence, and the third wave which dealt with breaking down of essential notions of gender and with the reappearance of the term queer, no longer demeaning. Gender is distinguished from sex, in the sense that gender is a social construct. Gender is looked at from Judith Butler's perspective and her notion of gender performativity is analyzed and further elaborated on the examples of cross-dressing and drag. Queer was used as a pejorative term, but today it is an umbrella term for all people who do not conform to the LGBT acronym. HIV/AIDS discourse and adoption are two issues analyzed in the context of the queer community.Feminizam je definiran kao društveni, politički i gospodarski pokret koji je prvenstveno omogućio ženama diljem svijeta da postignu jednakost između muškaraca i žena. Taj se pokret može razdvojiti na tri vala: prvi val u kojemu se žene zalažu za svoja prava glasa; drugi val u kojem su žene tražile političku nezavisnost; i treći val koji se bavio dekonstrukcijom pojma ‘rod’ i afirmacijom izraza ‘queer’, koji se više ne koristi za omalovažavanje. Rod se razlikuje od spola, u smislu da je rod društveni konstrukt. Rod se promatra iz perspektive Judith Butler i analizira se njezin koncept performativnosti te je dodatno razrađen na primjerima fenomena transvestizma one koji se ne identificiraju samo akronimom LGBT. Diskurs o HIV-u i AIDS-u te pravo istospolnih parova na posvajanje analizirani su u kontekstu ‘queer’ zajednice