14. The women rights movement of the 1970s and 1980s
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- The women rights movement of the 1970s and 1980s
- Broader political movement of 1970s saw 80,000-100,000 women as participants in some form of women's group
- Comparable to wide support for temperance in 1870s and 1880s
- Social agenda was wider:
- Health
- Abortion
- Marriage and divorce
- Sexuality
- Rights for older women and working women
- Direction that politics for women had taken had moved away from previous conventional forms
- Was more an extension of trend established after Civil War for concerns over social and specifically women-centred issues
- This had been described as 'second wave' feminism
- 'first wave' feminism was more focussed on right to vote and to establish political rights in a narrower sense
- Broader political movement of 1970s saw 80,000-100,000 women as participants in some form of women's group
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