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.
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Women's Liberation
Women's Liberationnouna 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
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Women's Liberation
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Origin of women's liberation
First recorded in 1965–70
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The women’s liberation movement said that you know your own body, and you should walk away from a doctor who doesn’t give you the treatment that you want.
From Slate ● Nov. 12, 2026
Meanwhile, the women’s liberation movement had propelled itself into the mainstream, ignited by writers like Betty Friedan.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 3, 2026
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
It was a group dedicated to fighting sexism, and Steinem - one of three co-founders - became the face of the women's liberation movement in the United States for the rest of the 20th Century.
From BBC ● Dec. 1, 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
Her article, After Black Power, Women's Liberation, external brought her national fame, making her the face of the US feminist movement in the 1970s.
From BBC ● Sep. 3, 2026
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
The Women's Liberation Movement wanted many things in 1970, but one of the most important was freedom from "unpaid domestic servitude at home."
From Salon ● Aug. 8, 2022
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
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