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What was the Second Wave Feminist Movement?

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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>
== One Movement, or twoTwo? ==
Out of the groundbreaking ideology and theory from the late 1940s into the 1970s came the actual organization of women all over the United States and even the world. What came out of that important ideology though birthed two different opinions on how women should approach gaining equal rights. The first would be simply called ‘’Equal-rights feminism’’. Here, women sought equality among men in political and social spheres through legislation and trying to break ‘’the glass ceiling’’ in the working world. <ref>
LeGates, Marlene. In Their Time: A History of Feminism in Western Society. New York: Routledge, 2001, 347. </ref> The other would be called ‘’Radical Feminism’’. This type of feminism would spur those that believed that the patriarchal structure of society needed to be demolished and that women’s oppression was the root of all other oppressions. <ref>

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