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  2. Women's liberation movement - Wikipedia

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    The women's liberation movement ( WLM) was a political alignment of women and feminist intellectualism. It emerged in the late 1960s and continued into the 1980s, primarily in the industrialized nations of the Western world, which effected great change (political, intellectual, cultural) throughout the world. The WLM branch of radical feminism ...

  3. Women's liberation movement in North America - Wikipedia

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    The Women's liberation movement in North America was part of the feminist movement in the late 1960s and through the 1980s. Derived from the civil rights movement, student movement and anti-war movements, the Women's Liberation Movement took rhetoric from the civil rights idea of liberating victims of discrimination from oppression.

  4. Second-wave feminism - Wikipedia

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    v. t. e. Second-wave feminism was a period of feminist activity that began in the early 1960s and lasted roughly two decades, ending with the feminist sex wars in the early 1980s [1] and being replaced by third-wave feminism in the early 1990s. [2] It occurred throughout the Western world and aimed to increase women's equality by building on ...

  5. Timeline: The women's rights movement in the US - AOL

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    Historians describe two waves of feminism in history: the first in the 19 th century, growing out of the anti-slavery movement, and the second, in the 1960s and 1970s. Women have made great ...

  6. Feminist movement - Wikipedia

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    The feminist movement, also known as the women's movement, refers to a series of social movements and political campaigns for radical and liberal reforms on women's issues created by inequality between men and women. [1] Such issues are women's liberation, reproductive rights, domestic violence, maternity leave, equal pay, women's suffrage ...

  7. Gloria Steinem - Wikipedia

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    Christian Bale (stepson) Website. www.gloriasteinem.com. Signature. Gloria Marie Steinem ( / ˈstaɪnəm / STY-nəm; born March 25, 1934) is an American journalist and social-political activist who emerged as a nationally recognized leader of second-wave feminism in the United States in the late 1960s and early 1970s.

  8. Women's rights - Wikipedia

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    Self-determination of people. Sexuality. Speech. Water and sanitation. v. t. e. Women's rights are the rights and entitlements claimed for women and girls worldwide. They formed the basis for the women's rights movement in the 19th century and the feminist movements during the 20th and 21st centuries.

  9. African-American women in the civil rights movement - Wikipedia

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    t. e. Women prepare to march on Washington, D.C., 1963. African American women played a variety of important roles in the 1954-1968 civil rights movement. They served as leaders, demonstrators, organizers, fundraisers, theorists, formed abolition and self-help societies. [1] They also created and published newspapers, poems, and stories about ...