In the past few decades the term feminism has been stigmatized on an entire social movement of women focused on women's rights, empowerment, and advancement in society. How has a movement concentrated on the equality of gender before the law grew to be debased over the years with such crude stereotypes like "angry women", "radical, ugly women", "hairy", "hippie-type-types", "women with no sense of humor", "women with negative attitudes", "women who hate men", and more? In this documentary independent filmmaker Adelin Gasana explores the history of the U.S. women's liberation movement through the first, second, and third wave of feminism while also documenting how the term feminism and its movement became maligned over the years. Women studies professors, students, authors, activists, and female political leaders all chime in on this introspective journey in understanding the important and popular, modern-day movement called feminism.

• published: 12 Jul 2013
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