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

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

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

• 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.

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

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

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

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

• 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.

• 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.

• FemininityRelated: Its critiques challenged domestic femininity as a natural destiny for women.

• Contemporary RomanceRelated: Changing gender expectations influenced how modern romance portrays women’s choices and relationships.

• Women film directorsRelated: Its activism helped spur feminist film organizations, criticism, and production.

• Women’s magazinesRelated: Feminist critiques challenged magazine conventions around beauty, marriage, work, and gender roles.

• AntifeminismRelated: Its campaigns prompted renewed organized opposition over work, sexuality, and family roles.

• Barbara KrugerRelated: Its debates about representation and gender inform themes central to Kruger’s work.

• Sheryl SandbergRelated: Sandberg’s workplace-focused advocacy follows a longer movement challenging gender barriers in public and professional life.

• Hookup cultureRelated: Its challenges to sexual double standards reshaped debates about women's sexual autonomy.

• 1970sRelated: Campaigns for equal rights and reproductive freedom expanded across the decade.

• Donna ReedRelated: Reed later challenged her sitcom’s traditional image through political advocacy and public commentary.

• Protests of 1968Related: Women activists questioned gender hierarchies within protest movements as well as society.

• Queer studiesRelated: Feminist debates about gender and power helped shape the field’s questions and methods.

• Brownie WiseRelated: Later debates about women’s work and power revisited the opportunities and constraints visible in Wise’s career.

• Erica JongRelated: Jong’s candid treatment of female desire appeared amid a movement contesting sexual double standards.

• Marie ClaireRelated: Its debates influenced the issues women’s magazines addressed alongside fashion.

• Wendy WassersteinRelated: Its debates over work, family, and identity inform the historical arc of The Heidi Chronicles.