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Before beginning After World War II, some writers began to talk about question how women in society were perceived and the actual outcomes of role they played, particularly as the movement, which provided real and tangible rights for war had shown women, it is important to understand the basic ideology behind the second wave of feminism. The ideology made valuable contributions and theory of the second wave was groundbreaking and continues in many cases performed tasks equally to be a part of contemporary feminism todayme.In 1949, Simone de Beauvoir published ‘’The <i>The Second Sex’’Sex</i>, a groundbreaking book that questioned how society viewed women and the role in which they played. In her work, Beauvoir writes, “One is not born, but rather becomes, a woman.” This quote is essential in feminism theoryrepresent how society fosters the idea of what a woman should do and act, which seeks to explain that where gender is a social construct roles are learned and learned from the social environmentforced upon women. <ref> Vasilopoulou, Angeliki. "Woman by Choice:’ A Comment on Simone De Beauvoir’s Famous Phrase ‘One Is Not Born a Woman, but Becomes One'" <i>Journal of Research in Gender Studies </i> 4, no. 2 (2014), 489-490. </ref> Where World War II showed that women could break out of their gender roles as was required; the book questioned then why should women's roles that saw them as secondary to men in the workplace and home be perpetuated when this was clearly not the case during the war.

The famous After a period of time, the movement gained greater traction through more authors in the 1960s. Betty Friedan wrote ''The Feminine Mystique'' in 1963 where so questioned white, middle class femininity and the seclusion of the private sphere. In her book, Friedan includes interviews with women who were just unhappy at home when society told them that is was the only place they belonged. This book would begin to break down the private and public sphere barriers that most women subscribed to. <ref> Ryan, Barbara. <i>Feminism and the Women's Movement: Dynamics of Change in Social Movement Ideology, and Activism</i>. New York: Routledge, 1992, 42. </ref> In 1969, Katy Millett wrote ''Sexual Politics'' and wrote about the patriarchal structure, which informed sex and gender oppression. Millets argued that before any other type of oppression existed, elite men first oppressed people based on sex and gender and then it extended to race and class. <ref> LeGates, Marlene. <i>In Their Time: A History of Feminism in Western Society</i>. New York: Routledge, 2001, 361. </ref> Carol Hanisch published an essay in 1970 titled “The Personal is Political.” Hanisch argued that everything was political. Whether a women decided to have an abortion and get a job as a woman in a male dominated industry, each of these decisions was ultimately a political. She determined that women needed to bring their ‘’private sphere problems’’ to the ‘’public sphere podium’’ in order to be heard. <ref>Lee, Theresa Man Ling. "Rethinking the Personal and the Political: Feminist Activism and Civic Engagement." Hypatia: A Journal of Feminist Philosophy 22, no. 4 (2007): 163-79. doi:10.2979/hyp.2007.22.4.163. </ref>