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women's liberation movement

n. the movement aimed at equal rights for women [syn: feminist movement, feminism, women's lib]

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Women's liberation movement

The women's liberation movement was a loose agreement of women and feminist thinking that emerged in the United States, United Kingdom, and other developed countries during the late 1960s and persisted throughout the 1970s.

Usage examples of "women's liberation movement".

Helens when he was talking about Earth's women's liberation movement to help instill a bit of self-confidence in Heln.

Apparently Alice had taken the women's liberation movement of the last decade or so to heart - and she hadn't been the only one, either.

He was too busy implementing his newest fund-raising scheme, the Male Chauvinist Organization (MACHO), which he hoped would milk mucho denaros from Russ Meyers, illegal abortionists, pimps, industrialists who regularly paid female workers thirty percent of the salaries of men doing the same jobs, and all others threatened by the Women's Liberation Movement.

I must confess I've been tremendously liberated by the women's liberation movement as a man, because before, I'd go on a busman's holiday to theaters, to movies.

She had the feeling Carpathian males had never caught on to the twentieth-century women's liberation movement.

I maintain a friendly interest in the Women's Liberation Movement, though I've no particular desire to be 'emancipated' myself, as my neglect, since marriage, of intellectual activity, formerly a passion with me, unhappily testifies.