women's lib

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If women’s lib is commonly thought to have progressed in successive wavelets over the better part of a century, “After Sappho” wants to rewrite that linear story into a swirl — not waves but eddies.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 25, 2023

As a young woman raised in the wake of the modern women’s lib movement, I always believed I came of age during the forward surge of female empowerment.

From Salon • Sep. 14, 2019

Now, decades after the suffrage movement, and women’s lib, and the sexual revolution, the abstract idea of “the wife” still looms large in our cultural imagination—and sanctimony, loyalty, and resentment orbit her like moons.

From The New Yorker • Jun. 5, 2019

In this context, the acceptance of middle age becomes a feminist act, and the same seems to have been true for Lessing in 1973, whatever her crotchety scepticism about women’s lib.

From The Guardian • Aug. 11, 2018

Even the roles that turned them into icons fumbled with how to combine teen coolness with women’s lib.

From Washington Post • Jun. 7, 2018