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
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