Women's Liberation Movement

Definition

The Women's Liberation Movement was a political alignment of women and feminist intellectualism that emerged in the late 1960s and continued into the 1980s primarily in the industrialized nations of the Western world, which effected great change (political, intellectual, cultural) throughout the world.

Related terms

Feminism: The belief in social, economic, and political equality of the sexes. It also refers to a sociopolitical movement aimed at achieving such equality.

Equal Rights Amendment (ERA): A proposed amendment to the United States Constitution designed to guarantee equal legal rights for all American citizens regardless of sex; it seeks to end the legal distinctions between men and women in terms of divorce, property, employment, etc.

Second-wave feminism: Period of feminist activity beginning in the early 1960s and lasting through the late 1980s. It was a worldwide movement that was strong in Europe and parts of Asia, such as Turkey and Israel.