Feminism in the 1970s

If there is unprecedented concern with sex roles today, it is in large part because of the revival of feminism. The women’s liberation movement has launched a drive for social change that promises to alter some of the fundamental values by which we live. Although feminism is not new to America, the present movement is distinctive in at least three ways: it is grounded in and moving in the same direction as underlying social trends; it has an organizational base that is diverse and decen...