Riot grrrl: revolution girl style now!

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Riot Grrrl: Revolution Girl Style Now!

Introduction

This project is about the feminist youth culture ,the riot grrrls, also called “the third wave of feminism”. And this was a huge innovation to the movement, because although there had always been young women in the feminist organizations in general, there have never been young feminists to a specific staff to this segment. Its questions have always turned to the adult woman: daycare, pay, maternity license, parliamentary parity, among others. The issue of children and youth was treated in a way that involved the adult population. In this sense, youth riot grrrl culture enables us to enter an expensive issue that has involved the feminism today: identity and represent it. The features that challenge the "woman" - a lesbian woman, a black woman and, in our case, the young woman, - forced the feminist movement to rethink the unit and that representation.

Riot Grrrl is… ?

According to the Password – English Dictionary for Speakers of Portuguese:
Riot – noun – a noisy disturbance created by a usually large group of people. - verb – to form or take part in a riot.

And grrrl is the one time, a quibble with the word girl and onomatopoeia like the noise of grinding of teeth, with the idea of anger.
They are young girls that, by linking music and politic, questioning and complaining about unequal gender relations and their consequences, in particular those relating to youth, build from a language and practice, a feminist identity.

The Riot Grrrls are not concerned to show themselves as cute, sensitive, well behaved. They argue for a new type of feminism, more aggressive, to hit these girls front with the old feminist who preached the nonviolence. Riot grrrls want to be heard. They want to speak out against various issues in today's society. Riot grrrl is not 'man-hating'. It is a movement for grrrls that want to be equal to men. Riot grrrls want to make a stand. Riot grrrl is being a

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