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
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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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By the 1960s, the women's liberation movement began challenging many of those norms.
From BBC ● Jul. 25, 2026
The urgency women now feel about regaining their lost freedom echoes the grassroots uprising of the women’s liberation movement in the late 1960s and early 1970s.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 22, 2024
“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
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
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
In a statement posted on X Thursday, Elspeth Cypher, Women’s Liberation Front board president, called the new Justice Department investigations “a welcome advance.”
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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