Women's Liberation Movement
- Women's Liberation Movement
Women's Liberation Movement
['wɪmɪnz lɪbə'reɪʃn 'muːvmənt],
Kunstwort Women's Lịb, in den USA Mitte der 1960er-Jahre im Zusammenhang mit der
Bürgerrechtsbewegung entstandene
Frauenbewegung. Mit v. a. politischen und sozialen Forderungen kämpft das W. L. M., das vermeintlich weibliche
Eigenschaften (z. B. gefühlsbetont,
irrational, passiv) als nicht
biologisch fundiert, sondern als soziale Konstrukte betrachtet, gegen die traditionelle
Bestimmung geschlechtsspezifischer Rollen, die Frauen einen minderwertigen Status zuweisen, und gegen männliche Überlegenheitsansprüche, für die das W. L. M. den
Ausdruck »male chauvinism« (
Chauvinismus) prägte. Herausragende Vertreterinnen sind u. a. Betty
Friedan, Germaine Greer und Kate
Millett. (
Feminismus,
Frauenbewegung)
S. Evans: Personal politics. The roots of Women's Liberation in the
civil rights movement and the new left (
New York 1980).
Universal-Lexikon.
2012.
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