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The 92 pages that link to Second-wave feminism, each with the reason it gives.

• Feminist literary criticismNarrower topic: Its activism helped establish gender and patriarchy as central questions in literary scholarship.

• Gender roleRelated: Its campaigns challenged domestic and occupational expectations assigned by gender.

• Simone de BeauvoirRelated: The Second Sex became a foundational reference for many activists and theorists in this movement.

• Black feminismCompared with: Black feminists challenged its tendency to treat white middle-class women’s experiences as universal.

• FeminismBroader topic: It broadened feminist politics beyond voting and formal legal rights.

• GenderNarrower topic: Its analyses made gendered social structures central to public debate.

• Feminist film theoryNarrower topic: Its activism and debates shaped the questions early feminist film critics brought to cinema.

• Sexual revolutionRelated: Its campaigns linked sexual freedom to bodily autonomy and gender equality.

• Feminist theoryRelated: Its campaigns and debates expanded theory beyond formal rights to work, sexuality, and family life.

• Male gazeNarrower topic: The essay's critique grew from feminist efforts to analyze women's representation and power.

• Women’s liberation movementNarrower topic: The movement formed a major part of this broader wave of feminism.

• Feminist artNarrower topic: Its activism gave feminist artists shared political language and organizing networks.

• Gender essentialismRelated: Its debates over biology, socialization, and liberation brought essentialist assumptions into sharp focus.

• Margaret MeadRelated: Her work on cultural variation in gender roles became a resource for feminist arguments.

• Radical feminismNarrower topic: Radical feminism developed as one influential current within this broader movement.

• Identity politicsRelated: Its organizing exposed conflicts over whose experiences mainstream movements treated as representative.

• Liberal feminismNarrower topic: Liberal feminist campaigns helped shape its legislative agenda, alongside broader critiques of social norms.

• Joan RiversNarrower topic: Rivers’s career developed amid changing expectations for women in public and professional life.

• First-wave feminismRelated: Later activists widened the agenda beyond the legal and political rights emphasized earlier.

• New LeftRelated: Feminists adapted movement organizing while challenging male dominance in radical groups.

• SexismRelated: It made workplace, family, and cultural sexism central political issues.

• Women's rightsNarrower topic: It broadened rights campaigns beyond voting to everyday institutions and social relations.

• Sexual politicsNarrower topic: Its debates made private life and sexuality subjects of political analysis.

• The Second SexRelated: The book’s analysis became a foundational text for activists and theorists challenging women’s social roles.

• MisogynyBroader topic: Activists made misogyny and its everyday institutional forms central subjects of public debate.

• Women's historyRelated: Its activism helped establish demand for scholarship on women’s lives.

• Women's rights movementBroader topic: It widened movement priorities beyond the vote and formal legal status.

• Gloria SteinemNarrower topic: Steinem became one of its most recognizable spokespeople.

• Kate MillettNarrower topic: Millett’s book became one of the movement’s defining intellectual works.

• Socialist feminismNarrower topic: Its activism created the political setting in which socialist-feminist ideas gained force.

• Betty FriedanNarrower topic: Friedan’s book helped bring women’s dissatisfaction into the public debate associated with this movement.

• Judy ChicagoNarrower topic: Chicago’s art developed amid its campaigns against women’s exclusion from cultural institutions.

• Rape cultureNarrower topic: Its activism helped bring sexual violence and gendered power into public debate.

• Feminist art historyNarrower topic: Its activism and scholarship helped make gendered exclusions in art history an explicit subject.

• Feminist art movementRelated: Its debates about domestic labor, sexuality, and representation shaped the movement’s subjects and aims.

• Feminist sex warsNarrower topic: The sex wars developed within this movement’s organizing and debates about women’s liberation.

• Sex-positive feminismNarrower topic: Its debates about sexuality and power formed the movement’s immediate political setting.

• The Handmaid’s TaleRelated: The novel engages debates about reproductive rights, work, and women’s political status.

• Feminist movementBroader topic: It broadened feminist activism beyond voting rights to everyday structures of inequality.

• Gender studiesRelated: Its campaigns and ideas helped create demand for sustained academic study of gender.

• Norman MailerRelated: Its challenge to gender hierarchy made Mailer’s writing on sexuality a focal point of public debate.

• The Feminine MystiqueNarrower topic: The book helped bring women’s dissatisfaction into public debate during this movement’s emergence.

• Hugh HefnerRelated: Its debates over objectification and women’s liberation framed criticism of Playboy.

• PlayboyRelated: Feminist critics challenged the magazine's treatment of women and its claims about sexual liberation.

• Sexual double standardRelated: Activists made unequal sexual norms part of broader critiques of women's autonomy and power.

• Carceral feminismNarrower topic: Its campaigns against rape and domestic violence formed part of the political groundwork.

• Consciousness-raisingNarrower topic: Consciousness-raising became a characteristic practice within this broader movement.

• Feminist media studiesNarrower topic: Its campaigns and critiques helped make mass media a central object of feminist inquiry.

• Lesbian feminismNarrower topic: Lesbian feminism developed within this movement while contesting its treatment of sexuality.

• The Madwoman in the AtticNarrower topic: Its political and intellectual concerns shaped the book’s recovery of women’s literary histories.