second-wave feminism

noun

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.

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nounsecond-wave feminism (uncountable)
  1. uncountableA 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.

    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.

    2022 June 17, Michelle Goldberg, “The Future Isn’t Female Anymore”, in The New York Times
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