ABSTRACT
This chapter summarises important theories of fourth-wave feminism from Kira Cochrane, Prudence Chamberlain, Laura Bates, and Sara Ahmed among others. The summary details the prevalence of online activism, how fourth-wave feminists are dedicated to spotting patterns of behaviour abuse from discrete episodes of abuse, and the importance of narratives—how stories are told—in feminist texts. Moreover, fourth-wave feminists are so dedicated to activism that each description of fourth-wave feminism is also an example of fourth-wave feminist activism. This chapter takes these ideas and offers readings of hyper-contemporary literature, focusing on narrative construction in Sarah Perry’s Melmoth (2018) in comparison with Clare Fisher’s How the Light Gets In (2018), of online and digital feminism in Fisher’s How the Light Gets In, and of the sexually abused female body in Emma Glass’s Peach (2018) compared with the utopic vision of woman’s body in Zoe Gilbert’s Folk (2018).
