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Women's Liberation

Meaning

Women's Liberation is a feminist movement to end sexism and expand women's rights. It presses for equality in law, work, politics, and daily life. It challenges patriarchy and restrictive gender roles.

Examples

Women's liberation is just a lot of foolishness. It's men who are discriminated against. They can't bear children. And no one is likely to do anything about that. Golda Meir

Of all the nasty outcomes predicted for women's liberation... none was more alarming, from a feminist point of view, than the suggestion that women would eventually become just like men. Barbara Ehrenreich

I am increasingly convinced that technological culture is the entire root of women's liberation. Lois McMaster Bujold

Could women's liberation ever be a revolutionary movement, not rhetorically but on the ground? Andrea Dworkin

At that time, there was general agreement among everyone involved in women's liberation that women should have a defined sexual self-interest. Susie Bright

Women's liberation and the male midlife crisis were the same search--for personal fulfillment, common values, mutual respect, love. But while women's liberation was thought of as promoting identity, the male midlife crisis was thought of as an identity crisis. Warren Farrell

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