60s feminism

Feminists working on placards and signs making ready for a Women's Liberation Movement march or demonstration. Circa 1970.

The 1960′s spurred a large feminist movement, also known as “second-wave feminism”. This of course refers to the first large feminist movement for women’s suffrage in the 1920′s, making the 1960′s...

Second-wave feminism concentrated on women’s equality and advancing women’s rights since the suffrage movement of the first wave.

Recently, I took my first women’s studies class. I needed the credits and, honestly, I took it because my friend told me it was an easy A. Also, I could take the class online. Awesome. So, the first day of class I logged onto Blackboard Learn and opened the assignment. All I had to do was read a few...

Taken at SlutWalk Melbourne, on the steps of Parliament House. Photo was taken by my cousin Sam, editing by me.

Advertising guru Charles Saatchi has found a selection of adverts from the 1950s and 1960s which would today be considered offensive, sexist and in many cases, in poor taste

© Barbara Kruger. Courtesy: Mary Boone Gallery, New York

Until Mad Men reminded us, many people may have forgotten that there was a shocking amount of things women couldn’t do until the ‘70s. The rights women didn’t ...