ABSTRACT
Perhaps the most radical result of the social ferment spawned among groups of Catholics after the council of 1963-65 is the Catholic women’s movement. Spurred on by the secular women’s movement developing concurrently in the United States of the 1960s, Catholic feminists emerged for the first time as an identifiable group in the United States. Today, the coalition known as Women-Church includes a large proportion of Catholic feminists among its leadership and membership. A correct understanding of Women-Church requires some historical background of developments that preceded its emergence in the United States of the 1980s.
