Original sentence: A post-structuralist interpretation of gender and sexuality is also central to much of the third wave and helps to account for its heightened emphasis on the discursive power and fundamental ambiguity inherent in all gender terms and categories.It was also a response to the backlash against initiatives and movements created by the second-wave.The movement arose as a response to perceived failures of second-wave feminism.They also challenged the second wave's paradigm as to what is, or is not, good for females.Third wave feminists often focus on "micropolitics," writing about forms of gender expression and representation that are less explicitly political than their predecessors.Third-wave feminism seeks to challenge or avoid what it deems the second wave's "essentialist" definitions of femininity, which (according to the third wave) often assumed a universal female identity and over-emphasized the experiences of upper middle class white women
Edited sentence: A post-structuralist interpretation of gender and sexuality is central to much of the third wave and helps to account for its heightened emphasis on the discursive power and fundamental ambiguity inherent in all gender terms and categories.In contrast to their predecessors, third wave feminists often focus on "micropolitics," writing about forms of gender expression and representation that are less explicitly political.The movement arose as a response both to perceived failures of second-wave feminism and to the popular backlash against the progress of that same second wave.They also challenged the second wave's definitions about what is or is not good for females, by finding signs of empowerment and resistance in areas which were not a part of the second wave paradigm.Third-wave feminism seeks to challenge or avoid the second wave's "essentialist" definitions of femininity which often assumed a universal female identity and over-emphasized the experiences of upper middle class white women