second-wave feminism
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editsecond-wave feminism (uncountable)
- A period of feminist activity that began in the early 1960s in the United States and broadened the gender equality debate to include family, the workplace, reproductive rights, etc.
- 2022 June 17, Michelle Goldberg, “The Future Isn’t Female Anymore”, in The New York Times[1]:
- Obviously, the second-wave feminism of the ’60s and ’70s could be pretty factional as well; there were vicious internal fights over issues like lesbianism and pornography, as well as over white feminists’ blind spots about race.