- published: 03 Apr 2014
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Second-wave feminism is a period of feminist activity that first began in the early 1960s in the United States, and eventually spread throughout the Western world and beyond. In the United States the movement lasted through the early 1980s. It later became a worldwide movement that was strong in Europe and parts of Asia, such as Turkey and Israel, where it began in the 1980s, and it began at other times in other countries.
Whereas first-wave feminism focused mainly on suffrage and overturning legal obstacles to gender equality (i.e., voting rights, property rights), second-wave feminism broadened the debate to a wide range of issues: sexuality, family, the workplace, reproductive rights, de facto inequalities, and official legal inequalities. At a time when mainstream women were making job gains in the professions, the military, the media, and sports in large part because of second-wave feminist advocacy, second-wave feminism also drew attention to domestic violence and marital rape issues, establishment of rape crisis and battered women's shelters, and changes in custody and divorce law. Its major effort was the attempted passage of the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA) to the United States Constitution, in which they were defeated by anti-feminists led by Phyllis Schlafly, who argued as an anti-ERA view that the ERA meant women would be drafted into the military.
Second wave or Wave 2 may refer to:
make the stars surround you
all dressed up with nowhere to go
shining bright i look up to you
can we meet again tonight
i saw venus in the sky
and she told me everything
like a flashing light
a caution sign
i'm seeing something
racing down the freeway
make this car go faster
catching sparks
crashing into you
t hese flames will burn all night
i saw venus in the sky
and she told me everything
like a flashing light
a caution sign
i'm seeing something
you hold your head up high
it's been there ever since
and it's no surprise
i'm wrong, you're right
so sorry venus