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The women's liberation movement (WLM) was a political alignment of women and feminist intellectualism. It emerged in the late 1960s and continued til the 1980s, primarily in the industrialized nations of the Western world, which resulted in great change (political, intellectual, cultural) throughout the world.
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]
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 ...
The historiography of feminist movements today stresses their diverse character and distinguishes between a number of waves, respectively centred around women’s rights (mid-nineteenth to mid-twentieth century), women’s liberation (1970s and 1980s), and their multiple identities (1990s to the present).
Women started organising again after the end of the Second World War, and they soon gained equal political rights in most European countries, with women’s emancipation becoming an important aim and most women being allowed to take on full-time jobs, divorce their husbands and go to university.
Feminisms between East and West in the Leningrad Almanac Woman and Russia. For over half a century, the countless organizations and initiatives that comprise the Women's Liberation movement have helped to reshape many aspects of ...
Women’s Liberation was a radical, multiracial feminist movement that grew directly out of the New Left, civil rights, antiwar, and related freedom movements of the 1960s.
