History of the term. While postfeminism was first used in the 1980s to describe a backlash against second-wave feminism, it is now used as a label for a wide range of theories that take critical approaches to previous feminist discourses and includes challenges to the second wave's ideas.
The Downtown Athletic Club of New York City created the award and presented it first in 1935. The award, in 1935, was known as the 'DAC Trophy'. It was renamed 'Heisman Trophy' for John Heisman, the DAC's first athletic director, when Heisman passed away in 1936.
Itâs often cited as one of the great ironies of history that Alfred Nobel, the man famous for creating the Nobel Peace Prize, was also an explosives manufacturer and the inventor of dynamite. Even stranger, however, are the circumstances that led Nobel to develop his prizes in the first place.