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

“The record executives said: ‘How can you let your wife do that women’s lib crap?

From The Guardian • Aug. 24, 2020

“I was part of the women’s lib generation. I was proud I was able to support myself and not have to depend on somebody else to keep a roof over my head,” Maxwell said.

From Washington Post • Dec. 4, 2019

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

Cosmo and you run hand in hand outside the women’s movement’s second wave, outside the New Left and women’s lib, far outside the feminine mystique, feminist glamour girls, the Vietnam movement.

From The New Yorker • Aug. 1, 2019