3WAVE – Third-Wave Feminism Network

About the 3WAVE Network

The network serves as a meeting place for the exchange of ideas, collaboration, and knowledge dissemination, and is open to anyone who wishes to deepen their understanding of feminist ideas, movements, and social change.

We work interdisciplinarily and combine perspectives from intellectual history, sociology, gender studies, political science, cultural studies, and related fields. Through the network, we aim to highlight the scope and complexity of research on the development of feminism — from theoretical shifts and activist strategies to its institutional impact and material conditions.

Our work spans several key themes:

• the intellectual history of the third wave and changes within feminism over time,
• feminism in the 1990s and 2000s as a social movement,
• the arenas of the third wave — the state, academia, and civil society,
• and the social and economic conditions that have shaped feminist mobilization.

Together, we explore how feminist ideas have been interpreted, negotiated, and reshaped, and how they continue to influence society, culture, and politics.

3WAVE provides a platform for research collaborations, seminars, conferences, publications, and knowledge exchange. By bringing together researchers and engaged voices from different contexts, we seek to strengthen and develop the study of feminism in its many expressions — historical, theoretical, and practical. The network aims to facilitate and develop new research projects and to function as a node for the development of a broader research programme on third-wave feminism in Sweden.

The network was founded in 2025 with the workshop on third-wave feminism, “Unpacking the Third Wave: Future Historical Studies on 90s and Millennium Feminisms in Sweden”, funded by the Swedish Riksbankens Jubileumsfond.

Network Participants

• Klara Arnberg, associate professor and senior lecturer in economic history at Stockholm University
• Anne Berg, associate professor and senior lecturer in history at Gothenburg University
• Annika Berg, associate professor and senior lecturer in intellectual history at Stockholm University
• Helena Bergman, associate professor and senior lecturer in history at Södertörn University
• Andrés Brink Pinto, researcher and lecturer in history at Lund University
• Fia Cottrell-Sundevall, associate professor and senior lecturer in ecnomic history at Stockholm University
• Sara Edenheim, associate professor in history and senior lecturer in gender studies at Umeå University
• Samuel Edqvist, professor in history at Mid Sweden University
• Martin Englund, PhD in history and lecturer in educational sciences at Södertörn University
• Yulia Gradskova, associate professor and senior lecturer in history at Södertörn University
• Rebecca Göransdotter, doctoral student in the sociology of education at Uppsala University
• Jacob Hane-Weijman, doctoral student in intellectual history at Umeå University
• Helena Hill, associate professor in history and senior lecturer in gender studies at Södertörn University
• Livia Johannesson, associate professor at the School of Public Administration, University of Gothenburg, and researcher at Stockholm Centre for Organizational Research (SCORE), at Stockholm University
• Gustaf Nelhans, associate professor and senior lecturer in library and information science at University of Borås
• Anna Nordenstam, professor in literature at Gothenburg University
• Daniel Nyström, associate professor in history and and senior lecturer in pedagogy at Umeå University
• Rachel Pierce, PhD in history and research coordinator at KvinnSam, Gothenburg University
• Johanna Ringarp, associate professor in history and pedagogy and senior lecturer in the history of education at Stockholm University
• Helena Tolvhed, professor in history at Stockholm University
• Sofie Törnhill, associate professor in gender studies and senior lecturer in glocal studies at Gothenburg University

Upcoming Events

• 3–4 November 2026 – Witness seminar on third-wave feminism in Sweden, in collaboration with Södertörn University.

Past Events

• 21 April 2026 – Presentation: “Academic Riot Grrrls: Bang and the Conditions of 1990s Mainstream Feminism in Sweden”, Genuskollegiet, Malmö University.
• 2–3 December 2025 – Workshop: “Unpacking the Third Wave: Future Historical Studies on 90s and Millennium Feminisms in Sweden”, funded by Riksbankens Jubileumsfond..
• 13 August 2025 – “Mainstream Riot Grrrls: The Content and Conditions of 90s Feminism in Sweden, the Example of Bang”, Nordiska historikermötet/Nordic Historians’ Meeting.

Publications from the Network

Berg, Anne, and Rachel Pierce. 2026. “Academic Riot Grrrls: Bang and the Conditions of 1990s Mainstream Feminism in Sweden.” Scandinavian Journal of History 51 (1): 86–107. https://doi.org/10.1080/03468755.2025.2581619.