ABSTRACT

Throughout the late 1960s, while different groups of women were protesting the Vietnam War or demanding Black Power, a growing number were also beginning to speak out on a subject that had remained largely quiescent for 50 years: women's rights. Nineteenth-century feminists had envisioned the vote as only one aspect of full equality, but the drive for woman suffrage had gradually overshadowed all other goals. Once that victory was won in 1920, the rest of the agenda was forgotten; indeed, the flappers of the 1920s saw their mothers' feminism as a bit old-fashioned. In the decades that followed, different groups of women did periodically demand greater equality, but these protests never coalesced into a single unified women's movement.