women's liberation movement

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She reminisces on a childhood growing up in a repressive household during the 1960s, when second-wave feminism and the women’s liberation movement were just starting to achieve legitimacy.

From Salon • Mar. 14, 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

It was a group dedicated to fighting sexism, and Steinem - one of three co-founders - became the face of the women's liberation movement in the United States for the rest of the 20th Century.

From BBC • Dec. 1, 2023

In 2011, “Growing Up Female” was added to the Library of Congress’s National Film Registry and is considered the first feature documentary of the modern women’s liberation movement.

From Seattle Times • Dec. 2, 2022

Shannon’s feminism felt radically different from the women’s liberation movement that I grew up with.

From New York Times • Oct. 7, 2021