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'''Second-wave feminism''' was a period of [[Feminism|feminist]] activity that began in the early 1960s and lasted roughly two decades before ushering in a [[third-wave feminism|third wave of feminism]] beginning in the early 1990s. It took place throughout the [[Western world]], and aimed to increase equality for women by building on previous [[first-wave feminism|feminist gains in the late 19th and early 20th centuries]].
Whereas [[first-wave feminism]] focused mainly on [[Women's suffrage|suffrage]] and overturning legal obstacles to [[gender equality]] (''e.g.'', [[Women's suffrage in the United States|voting rights]] and [[property rights]]), second-wave feminism broadened the debate to include a wider range of issues: sexuality, family, domesticity, the workplace, [[reproductive rights]], ''de facto'' inequalities, and official legal inequalities.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/647122/womens-movement |title=women's movement (political and social movement) |website=Britannica Online Encyclopedia |access-date=July 20, 2012}}</ref> It was a movement that was focused on critiquing
Missing from the typical narrative told about second-wave feminism is the experiences of black and other women of color as well as working class women as some narratives focus on the sexism encountered by white middle and upper class women. Some narratives present a viewpoint focusing on events in the United States to the exclusion of experiences in other countries and neglect the works of white anti-racist feminism. While the term "[[intersectionality]]" was not coined until 1989 by [[Kimberlé Crenshaw]] after the end of the second wave, women of color were writing and creating feminist political activist groups throughout the entire movement, particularly in the 1970s.<ref>{{Citation |last=Thompson |first=Becky |title=2. Multiracial Feminism: Recasting the Chronology of Second Wave Feminism |date=2019-12-31 |url=http://dx.doi.org/10.36019/9780813549170-004 |work=No Permanent Waves |pages=39–60 |access-date=2023-05-18 |publisher=Rutgers University Press|doi=10.36019/9780813549170-004 |isbn=9780813549170 |s2cid=243515689 }}</ref>
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