Definition

Noun: - Women's liberation movement: A social and political movement seeking to achieve equal rights, opportunities, and social status for women, often through challenging traditional gender roles and systemic inequalities.

Usage

• This term is used to refer to the organized feminist movement, particularly prominent in the 1960s and 1970s.
• It often describes the ideology and collective actions aimed at liberating women from societal restrictions.
• It can be used in historical, sociological, or political contexts.

Examples

Advanced Usage

• "Women's libber": (noun, sometimes informal or historical) A person, especially a woman, who actively supports or participates in the women's liberation movement.
  • She was proudly called a women's libber by her friends and a radical by her critics.

Variants and Related Words

• Feminism (noun): The advocacy of women's rights on the basis of the equality of the sexes. This is a broader and more contemporary term often used synonymously with or in place of "women's lib."
• Women's liberation (noun phrase): A full form and direct synonym for "women's lib."
• Women's rights movement (noun phrase): A term focusing on the goal of achieving legal and social rights.

Synonyms

• Feminism
• Women's liberation
• The feminist movement
• Women's rights movement

Notes on Usage

• "Women's lib" is an abbreviated, informal term that carries strong historical connotations of a specific period of feminist activism. In modern academic or formal writing, "feminism" or "the women's movement" is often preferred.
• The term can sometimes be used pejoratively by critics of the movement.

Noun

1. the movement aimed at equal rights for women