Meanings
nounmidsixties pl (plural only)
- pluralplural onlyThe middle years of the 1960s.
Both began as “reformist” feminist theologians in the optimistic postconciliar mood of the midsixties, that is, they recognized the problems inherent to Christianity but believed, with reform, that Christianity could lead people to justice and liberation.
2008, Mary J. Henold, Catholic and Feminist
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