Women's Liberation Movement Archives

Activism

Betty Friedan’s Radical Century

Because of this organizer, you can’t understand the twentieth century without talking about feminism

March 4, 2021 • by Peter Dreier

"A century after her birth, Betty Friedan’s radical ideas are common sense, and that’s a victory not just for feminists, but for everyone."...

French Feminism at the Barricade

An Excerpt from “Daughters of 1968”

March 8, 2019 • by Lisa Greenwald

Daughters of 1968: Redefining French Feminism and the Women’s Liberation Movement is the story of French feminism between 1944 and 1981, when feminism played a central political role in the history of France. The key women during this epoch were often leftists committed to a materialist critique of society and were ...

What We Must Learn from the History of French Feminism

An interview with Lisa Greenwald

March 7, 2019 • by Lisa Greenwald and Josh Maserow

Daughters of 1968: Redefining French Feminism and the Women’s Liberation Movement , by Lisa Greenwald, is the story of French feminism between 1944 and 1981, when feminism played a central political role in the history of France. The key women during this epoch were often leftists committed to a materialist critique ...