women's lib

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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

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