women's lib

“My character is like an early bird of women’s lib, which Bella becomes then too.”

Interviewers frequently asked Murphy about what in the 1970s was called “women’s lib.”

While much has been written about Simon's racy spate of album covers, her songs themselves proved to be the making of her career, with wide-ranging themes about the nature of post-1960s womanhood during an era marked by women's lib and "The Mary Tyler Moore Show."

As Ms. Quant told it, she “didn’t have time to wait for women’s lib.”

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.