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National Women's History Project. "Detailed Timeline | National Women's History Project". National Women's History Project. Imbornoni, Ann-Marie (13 January 2018). "Timeline of Key Events in the American Women's Rights Movement 1921–1979". Infoplease. Sandbox Networks, Inc., publishing as Infoplease. Rampton, Martha (25 October 2015) [2008].
Historians describe two waves of feminism in history: the first in the 19 th century, growing out of the anti-slavery movement, and the second, in the 1960s and 1970s. Women have made great ...
Florida: Mary R. Grizzle introduces and passes the Married Women Property Rights Act, giving married women in Florida, for the first time, the right to own property solely in their names and to transfer that property without their husbands' signatures. [136] 1971. Barring women from practicing law becomes prohibited. [137]
The Movement: How Women's Liberation Transformed America 1963–1973. New York: Atria/One Signal Publishers. ISBN 9781982144210. OCLC 1428742933. Boxer, Marilyn J. and Jean H. Quataert, eds. Connecting Spheres: European Women in a Globalizing World, 1500 to the Present (2000). Cott, Nancy. No Small Courage: A History of Women in the United ...
Timeline of women's legal rights (other than voting) represents formal changes and reforms regarding women's rights. That includes actual law reforms as well as other formal changes, such as reforms through new interpretations of laws by precedents. The right to vote is exempted from the timeline: for that right, see Timeline of women's suffrage.
Century of Struggle: The Woman's Rights Movement in the United States. Harvard University Press. ISBN 0674106539. Echols, Alice (1990). Daring to Be Bad: Radical Feminism in America, 1967–1975. Rosen, Ruth (2006). The World Split Open: How the Modern Women's Movement Changed America. Penguin Publishing. ISBN 0670814628
Black feminism became popular in the 1960s, in response to the sexism of the civil rights movement and racism of the feminist movement. Fat feminism originated in the late 1960s. Fat feminism, often associated with "body-positivity", is a social movement that incorporates feminist themes of equality, social justice , and cultural analysis based ...
The women's liberation movement in North America was part of the feminist movement in the late 1960s and through the 1980s. Derived from the civil rights movement, student movement and anti-war movements, the Women's Liberation Movement took rhetoric from the civil rights idea of liberating victims of discrimination from oppression.