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4 days ago · Women’s rights movement, diverse social movement, largely based in the United States, that in the 1960s and ’70s sought equal rights and opportunities and greater personal freedom for women. It coincided with and is recognized as part of the ‘second wave’ of feminism.
1 day ago · In one of the groundbreaking books of feminism, The Feminine Mystique, Betty Friedan called the suburban home “a comfortable concentration camp” where women suffered a “slow death of mind ...
3 days ago · In 1963, Betty Friedan published her book The Feminine Mystique addressing the issues that many white-middle class housewives were facing at the time. Friedan's work catalyzed the second wave, and in particular the liberal feminist sector of the movement.
3 days ago · I went to college in the 90s and took my first women’s studies class. I learned about the feminist movement, second wave feminism, devoured the works of Betty Friedan, Gloria Steinem, Simone de Beauvoir. We learned that rape was about power, how women are still objects, subjects of the male gaze. We learned what our sisters had fought so hard ...
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1 day ago · Leaders like Gloria Steinem and Betty Friedan pushed for reproductive rights, workplace equality, and more. Image Credit: Shutterstock / Rosemarie Mosteller 7. The Environmental Movement.
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