Women's Liberation Movement
Women's liberation movement
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Women's liberation movement
The Women's Liberation Movement was a feminist political movement which developed in the 1960s and 1970s, and was one important strand in Second-Wave Feminism The term 'women's liberation' was coined in the early 1960s, when the word liberation was becoming popular, but (for example) the first Women's Liberation Conference in Britain took place in 1970, at Ruskin College.[1] Publications such as Spare Rib and off our backs were founded in the 1970s.
Second Wave Feminism
There was always a creative tension between a growing general climate of liberalization - culminating in legal liberalization in the late 1960s and early 1970s, for example on abortion, gay rights and equal pay in the UK; what was termed a 'second wave' of liberalizing feminism, perhaps best characterized by the formation of the National Organization of Women (NOW) and the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA) in the USA; and a more 'liberation' inspired movement with strong roots in the US Civil Rights Movement - and, it must be said, as much reacting against as working with the more radical political groups of the late 1960s. To see the blossoming of the latter, it is most useful to look at publications coming out of 'the underground', such as off our backs in 1970 in the USA (still strong today) and Spare Rib in 1972 the UK. It could be argued that Spare Rib itself did not explicitly identify itself as part of the women's liberation movement until its coverage of the 2007 National Women's Liberation Movement Conference - before that still working out how much it aimed to be a challenging popular women's magazine and how much an explicitly radical political publication. (See the Penguin Spare Rib Reader for a good description and depiction of its development.) The fact that Spare Rib reached its high point of circulation and influence (after some very good PR when it first started) in the late 1970s usefully charts the women's liberation
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Women's liberation movement
The Women's Liberation Movement was a feminist political movement which developed in the 1960s and 1970s, and was one important strand in Second-Wave Feminism The term 'women's liberation' was coined in the early 1960s, when the word liberation was becoming popular, but (for example) the first Women's Liberation Conference in Britain took place in 1970, at Ruskin College.[1] Publications such as Spare Rib and off our backs were founded in the 1970s.
Second Wave Feminism
There was always a creative tension between a growing general climate of liberalization - culminating in legal liberalization in the late 1960s and early 1970s, for example on abortion, gay rights and equal pay in the UK; what was termed a 'second wave' of liberalizing feminism, perhaps best characterized by the formation of the National Organization of Women (NOW) and the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA) in the USA; and a more 'liberation' inspired movement with strong roots in the US Civil Rights Movement - and, it must be said, as much reacting against as working with the more radical political groups of the late 1960s. To see the blossoming of the latter, it is most useful to look at publications coming out of 'the underground', such as off our backs in 1970 in the USA (still strong today) and Spare Rib in 1972 the UK. It could be argued that Spare Rib itself did not explicitly identify itself as part of the women's liberation movement until its coverage of the 2007 National Women's Liberation Movement Conference - before that still working out how much it aimed to be a challenging popular women's magazine and how much an explicitly radical political publication. (See the Penguin Spare Rib Reader for a good description and depiction of its development.) The fact that Spare Rib reached its high point of circulation and influence (after some very good PR when it first started) in the late 1970s usefully charts the women's liberation