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• women's liberation
  women's liberation

  noun

  a movement to combat sexual discrimination and to gain full legal, economic, vocational, educational, and social rights and opportunities for women, equal to those of men.
• Women's Liberation
  Women's Liberation

  noun

  a movement directed towards the removal of attitudes and practices that preserve inequalities based upon the assumption that men are superior to women

women's liberation

American  

noun

1. a movement to combat sexual discrimination and to gain full legal, economic, vocational, educational, and social rights and opportunities for women, equal to those of men.

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Women's Liberation British  

noun

1. Also called: women's lib.  a movement directed towards the removal of attitudes and practices that preserve inequalities based upon the assumption that men are superior to women

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Other Word Forms

• women's libber
  noun
• women's liberationist
  noun

Etymology

Origin of women's liberation

First recorded in 1965–70

Example Sentences

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women's liberation Women's Liberation

She reminisces on a childhood growing up in a repressive household during the 1960s, when second-wave feminism and the women’s liberation movement were just starting to achieve legitimacy.

From Salon ● Mar. 14, 2026

“Blues for Mama” was the rare protest song that could galvanize multiple social justice movements — civil rights, women’s liberation and Black Power — at once.

From New York Times ● Aug. 2, 2023

Two years later, activists entered the Royal Albert Hall in the UK and threw flour and rotten vegetables at the Miss World stage in support of women's liberation.

From BBC ● Jun. 27, 2023

At one point, soft-spoken Marie-Josephine follows the two pals to a clandestine political conclave where she delivers an impromptu speech in favor of women’s liberation.

From Washington Post ● Apr. 19, 2023

I was no advocate of women's liberation; I simply found interest in many activities and subjects.

From Through these Eyes The courageous struggle to find meaning in a life stressed with cancer by Lauren Ann Isaacson

The Women’s Liberation Front, which brought the lawsuit, announced this month that a federal court had dismissed the case but that they planned to appeal.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 26, 2026

In the days immediately following the riots, gay men, lesbians, and bisexuals organized the Gay Liberation Front to work alongside the Black Panthers, the Puerto Rican Young Lords, Women’s Liberation Movement, and student anti-war movements.

From Slate ● Apr. 7, 2025

In the 1960s, information about reproductive and sexual health was dispersed as the Women's Liberation Movement picked up speed.

From Salon ● Sep. 17, 2023

Lauren Bone, policy adviser for the feminist Women’s Liberation Front, cheered Kansas for establishing that “laws protecting all women cannot be changed outside of the democratic process.”

From Washington Times ● Apr. 27, 2023

Paradoxically, activists in the Women's Liberation movement are seriously considering the return to polygamy, as an alternative to the increasing number of deadbeat dads and the misery of abandoned wives and children.

From The Civilization of Illiteracy by Mihai Nadin