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second-wave feminism

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.78 in modern English

Syllables
sec-ond-wave fem-i-nism
IPA
34
Scrabble Score
18
Letters
5
Syllables
12
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A period of feminist activity that began in the early 1960s in the United States and broadened the gender equality debate to include family, the workplace, reproductive rights, etc.

Uncountable

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first-wave feminism fourth-wave feminism third-wave feminism

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What does second-wave feminism mean?
A period of feminist activity that began in the early 1960s in the United States and broadened the gender equality debate to include family, the workplace, reproductive rights, etc.

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