The Women's Liberation Movement was a political movement, born in the 1960s from Second-Wave Feminism.
It generated mythology almost before it was born such as bra burning - and it was a matter of deep concern to those within it at the time that its history would be rewritten by those who weren't in it. One important reality was that it is more sensibly seen as a movement of the 1970s and 1980s, not the 1960s, despite often being described as a 1960s phenomenon. The term 'women's liberation' was coined in the early 1960s, when the word liberation was becoming popular, but (for example) the first Women's Liberation Conference in Britain took place in 1969, at Ruskin College, and its major publications such as Spare Rib and off our backs not founded until 1970 and beyond.
Read more about Women's Liberation Movement: Second Wave Feminism, The 1980s, For The Record
Famous quotes containing the words liberation movement, women, liberation and/or movement:
“Whether we regard the Women’s Liberation movement as a serious threat, a passing convulsion, or a fashionable idiocy, it is a movement that mounts an attack on practically everything that women value today and introduces the language and sentiments of political confrontation into the area of personal relationships.”
—Arianna Stassinopoulos (b. 1950)
“Working women today are trying to achieve in the work world what men have achieved all along—but men have always had the help of a woman at home who took care of all the other details of living! Today the working woman is also that woman at home, and without support services in the workplace and a respect for the work women do within and outside the home, the attempt to do both is taking its toll—on women, on men, and on our children.”
—Jeanne Elium (20th century)
“Reason transformed into prejudice is the worst form of prejudice, because reason is the only instrument for liberation from prejudice.”
—Allan Bloom (1930–1992)
“You watched and you saw what happened and in the accumulation of episodes you saw the pattern: Daddy ruled the roost, called the shots, made the money, made the decisions, so you signed up on his side, and fifteen years later when the women’s movement came along with its incendiary manifestos telling you to avoid marriage and motherhood, it was as if somebody put a match to a pile of dry kindling.”
—Anne Taylor Fleming (20th century)