Second-wave feminism
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Second-wave feminism was a period of feminist activity that began in the early 1960s and lasted roughly two decades, ending with the feminist sex wars in the early 1980s and being replaced by third-wa
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American Association of University Women members with President John F. Kennedy as he signs the Equal Pay Act into law in 1963
Betty Friedan published The Feminine Mystique in 1963
The Second Sex
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The Second Sex is a 1949 book by the French existentialist philosopher Simone de Beauvoir, in which the author discusses the treatment of women in the present society as well as throughout all of hist
Second-wave feminism
…individual person as a free and responsible agent determining their own development through acts of the will. She went on to conclude in her 1949 treatise The Second Sex that male-centered ideology was being accepted as a norm and enforced by the ongoing development of myths, and that the fact that women are capable of…
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