Second-wave feminism is a period of feminist activity and thought that first began in the early 1960s in the United States, and eventually spread throughout the Western world and beyond. In the United States the movement lasted through the early 1980s.
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<span>Second-wave feminism is a period of feminist activity and thought that first began in the early 1960s in the United States, and eventually spread throughout the Western world and beyond. In the United States the movement lasted through the early 1980s. [1] It later became a worldwide movement that was strong in Europe and parts of Asia, such as Turkey [2] and Israel, where it began in the 1980s, and it began at other times in other
Second-wave feminism - Wikipedia movement lasted through the early 1980s. [1] It later became a worldwide movement that was strong in Europe and parts of Asia, such as Turkey [2] and Israel, where it began in the 1980s, and it began at other times in other countries. [3]
<span>Whereas first-wave feminism focused mainly on suffrage and overturning legal obstacles to gender equality (e.g., voting rights and property rights), second-wave feminism broadened the debate to a wide range of issues: sexuality, family, the workplace, reproductive rights, de facto inequalities, and official legal inequalities. [4] Second-wave feminism also drew attention to domestic violence and marital rape issues, establishment of rape crisis and battered women's shelters, and changes in custody and divorce law.
Many historians view the second-wave feminist era in America as ending in the earl