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« on: May 18, 2008, 09:52:35 am »








Second-wave feminism


 
Second-wave feminism refers to a period of feminist activity beginning in the early 1960s and lasting through the late 1980s.

The scholar Imelda Whelehan suggests that the second wave was a continuation of the earlier phase
of feminism involving the suffragettes in the UK and USA.

Second-wave feminism has existed continuously since that time and coexists with what is termed third-wave feminism. Second-wave feminists saw cultural and political inequalities as inextricably linked and encouraged women to understand aspects of their personal lives as deeply politicized as well as reflective of a sexist structure of power.

With her essay "The Personal is Political," Carol Hanisch coined a slogan that became synonymous with the second wave.

If first-wave feminism focused on rights such as suffrage, second-wave feminism was largely concerned with other issues of equality, such as the end to discrimination.





Women's Liberation in the USA



The phrase "Women’s Liberation" was first used in the United States in 1964 and first appeared in print in 1966.

By 1968, although the term Women’s Liberation Front appeared in the magazine Ramparts, it was starting to refer to the whole women’s movement.

Bra-burning also became associated with the movement.

One of the most vocal critics of the women's liberation movement has been the African American feminist and intellectual Bell Hooks, who argues that the movement's glossing over of race and class was part of its failure to address "the issues that divided women". She has highlighted the lack of minority voices in the women's movement.
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