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In Western Europe and the USA, the feminist movement was resurgent by the 1970s. Although this second wave of feminism aimed to achieve ‘women’s liberation’, different groups had different ideas about how this should be done. Liberal feminists wanted better equality laws and reform of institutions such as schools, churches and the media.
Women's liberation groups in Europe were distinguished from other feminist activists by their focus on women's rights to control their own bodies and sexuality, as well as their direct actions aimed at provoking the public and making society aware of the issues faced by women.
25 paź 2020 · How did sexual exploitation, abuse, and violence against women become gender-political issues? This book relates how feminist movements in Norway and France have politicized rape, pornography, and the sexual exploitation of women from the 1970s to the present.
The first women's group autonomous from a political party in Greece formed in 1975 as the Kinisi gia tin Apeleftherosi ton Gynaikon (Movement for the Liberation of Women, KAG), in Athens. Adopting slogans from the Women's Liberation Movement in the United States they believed that personal issues could be politicized. [46]
For over half a century, the countless organizations and initiatives that comprise the Women's Liberation movement have helped to reshape many aspects of ...
28 lis 2020 · In this chapter, I demonstrate how the ethos and praxis of autonomous organising produced a feminist culture which enabled activists to ‘live the revolution now’ outside of male control. Quote in the chapter title from Susan Hawthorne (WLM, AU).
The Origins of the Women's Liberation Movement' Jo Freeman University of Chicago The emergence in the last few years of a feminist movement caught most thoughtful observers by surprise. Women had "come a long way," had they not? What could they want to be liberated from? The new movement generated much speculation about the sources of female ...
