Second Wave Feminism

bell hooks argues that feminism must center poor women and women of color and transform, not merely gain acceptance within, institutions shaped by race, class, and gender.

A groundbreaking work of second-wave feminism, Greer analyzes women's castrated state in patriarchal society with radical and incisive prose, challenging traditional female roles and gender norms to become an important theoretical foundation for the women's liberation movement.

Betty Friedan's 1963 book describes the discontent of postwar U.S. housewives and helped draw readers into the second-wave movement. This guide examines its influence alongside the limits of a framework centered on white, middle-class experience.

A 20th-century feminist literary classic that reveals the psychological predicament and social oppression faced by women in the 1950s through semi-autobiographical narrative, profoundly exploring the relationship between mental illness and gender constraints.

The most famous 1962 experimental novel by 2007 Nobel Prize winner Doris Lessing, telling the then-unspeakable facts: women as beings with sexual desires, who suffer from mental illness, who struggle, who climax, who menstruate. Through the perspective of writer Anna trying to integrate her life experiences and creative notes into a unified whole, Lessing explores the unbeautiful aspects of women's lives with love, anger, and a frankness almost unheard of among women writers at the time.

Simone de Beauvoir’s 1949 feminist study examines how biology, history, work, sexuality, and cultural myths shape women’s lived situation. Its account of becoming, embodiment, and freedom remains influential - and demands critical reading across race, class, colonial history, and gender diversity.

This is a debate hosted by 'The Diary Of A CEO' featuring three women representing different perspectives on women's social issues, feminism, sexual liberation, and gender roles. The discussion focuses on the impact of sexual liberation and second-wave feminism on women's freedom, mental health, and interpersonal relationships, as well as the far-reaching consequences of modern feminism on gender roles.

The 2:36 official trailer for the 2018 documentary RBG, directed by Betsy West and Julie Cohen. This guide reads its promotional framing - not the full 98-minute film - through feminist questions about legal change, celebrity, and collective action.

The first documentary film to comprehensively cover feminism's second wave, this groundbreaking 2014 work chronicles the women's liberation movement from 1966-1971. Through archival footage and contemporary interviews, the film brings to life the activists who fought for employment equality, reproductive rights, and sexual liberation, while honestly addressing the movement's struggles with race, class, and homophobia.

Feminist Fight Club is an educational podcast hosted by Isabella Anzideo, introducing feminist history and contemporary issues in an accessible way. The show's content covers American women's political history, second-wave feminism, gender bias in philosophy, sexual violence statistics and survivor support, and transgender women's history. With a friendly style aimed at Gen Z, it's suitable for feminist beginners and teenage audiences.