ABSTRACT
During the 1960s social attitudes toward women changed as women developed a new consciousness of their oppression and this sense of injustice spread through society. This contributed to the most important flowering of the British women's movement since the pre-1914 suffrage campaign. While traditional feminist groups, such as the Fawcett Society, were reinvigorated, it was the Women's Liberation Movement (WLM) which distinguished the new women's movement from that of earlier periods. Instead of seeking equality with men, the WLM wished to change the male-dominated social structures which it considered the source of women's oppression. The result was the unleashing of a powerful, if somewhat diffuse, reform movement that culminated in numerous social experiments and the most important burst of legislation affecting women's legal position since the 1920s.
