Original sentence: A post-structuralist interpretation of gender and sexuality is central to much of third wave ideology.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 theory usually encompasses queer theory, colored women consciousness, womanism, post-colonial theory, critical theory, transnationalism, ecofeminism, and new feminist theory.Third-wave feminism is a term identified with several diverse strains of feminist activity and study beginning in the early 1990s.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.This accounts for the heightened emphasis on the discursive power and fundamental ambiguity inherent in all gender terms and categories
Edited sentence: The Coining of the Term “Third Wave Feminism”