Date of "second-wave feminism/feminist"

[Baker, John]

        Here's a little earlier, from the Boston Globe, 3/5/1981
(Westlaw):  "The "second wave" of feminism that began in the United
States in the late 1960s brought rediscovery of International Women's
Day, with rallies and marches the first manifestations."

        The Washington Post has an article from 3/5/1979 that may use
the phrase - I didn't buy the page print.


John Baker


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Subject: Date of "second-wave feminism/feminist"

Would any of you out there know of an earlier occurrence of "second
wave"
in connection with feminism earlier than the cite quoted below, which I
found in Nexis?  I've checked Newspaperarchive.com and the Time magazine
archive and found nothing earlier there.  M-W doesn't enter the phrase;
I'm asking on behalf of an archivist friend at the Sophia Smith
Collection who is fielding a query from a feminist researcher.

The broadly based suffragette movement gained political rights for
women. If feminism in its second wave is to achieve social choices on an
equal footing with men, then it must be an inclusive movement, with room
for all thoughtful political views. New York Times, Letters to the
Editor, DANA RUTH GOODGAL Princeton, N.J., July 7, 1983

Thanks,

Joanne

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